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Pedro López (painter)

Spanish painter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ16227337 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pedro López was a Spanish painter. He was a pupil of El Greco. He painted, among many others, the Adoration of the Kings in the convent of the Trinitarians at Toledo; it bears his name, and the date 1608.

References

Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 75.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pedro López (painter)” is spanish painter. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pedro, López and painter, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1608, 1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pedro, López and painter is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16227337. VIAF identifies the subject as 4521155345599006430001. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1608 and 1889.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pedro López (painter)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.