Cristobal López (16th century)

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Cristobal López (16th century) (died 1594) was a Spanish painter. He was a pupil of Alonso Sanchez Coello. Lopez became court painter to King John III of Portugal. He painted both portraits and devotional pictures, such as canvases for the chapel at Belem. He died in Lisbon.

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• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 75.