Mauricio García y Delgado (active 1747–1760)

• Mauricio García y Delgado was an 18th-century Peruvian painter.
• He is associated with the Cusco School (Escuela Cuzqueña).
• He is described in art-historical accounts as a mestizo painter.

• He directed a productive workshop, that supplied religious paintings throughout the Spanish colonial territories.

• In 1751 he contracted to produce 148 paintings with the merchant Miguel Blanco.

• In 1754 he entered into a contract with painter Pedro Nolasco Lara to produce 435 canvases for Gabriel Rincón. 

• The contract specified sizes, prices, and decorative details. Some paintings were to have gold decoration.

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