Specializing in the floral genre, Dehesa achieved unusual mastery in this type of work. This painter from Madrid received numerous court commissions. Bartolomé Pérez Dehesa trained with Juan de Arellano, who later became his father-in-law when he married his daughter Juana in 1663. He specialized in painting flowers and garlands, the latter including religious scenes and depictions of saints. The Prado Museum has twenty-three works of this type from the royal collection, the Museum of the Trinity and the donation of the duchess widow of Pastrana in 1889. He excelled as a decorative painter, participating in the ornamentation of the ephemeral arches made for the entrance of Queen Maria Luisa de Orleans, first wife of Charles II, in 1679 and ...