Melchor Pérez Holguin (ca. 1660–after 1732)

• Was a Bolivian painter.
• Born possibly in Cochabamba, Real Audiencia de Charcas.

• The son of Diego Pérez Holguín and Esperanza Flores.

• He spent most of his life in Villa Imperial de Potosí (Charcas, present-day Bolivia).
• Potosí a city that was a major center of silver mining and wealth during the colonial period, which provided a fertile environment for artistic patronage.
• He married on March 25, 1695 with the local Micaela del Castillo.
• It is unknown who his master may have been.

• His main production focused on the commissions made for Catholic religious orders, such as the Franciscan and the Dominican. 

• He died around 1735. 

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