Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera shine cikakken sunan wannan mai zane wanda ya bayyana mafi kyau fiye da kowane aikin filastik na tsakiyar karni na 18.
An haife shi a Antequera de Oaxaca a cikin 1695, ɗa ga iyayen da ba a san su ba kuma godson na mulatto ma'aurata, wataƙila an horar da shi a cikin bitar José de Ibarra, ya fara aikinsa na fasaha da aure a kusan 1740.
Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera shine cikakken sunan wannan mai zane wanda ya bayyana mafi kyau fiye da kowane aikin filastik na tsakiyar karni na 18. An haife shi a Antequera de Oaxaca a cikin 1695, ɗa ga iyayen da ba a san su ba kuma godson na mulatto ma'aurata, wataƙila an horar da shi a cikin bitar José de Ibarra, ya fara aikinsa na fasaha da aure a kusan 1740.
Ya ɗauki matsayin ɗan kwangila don aiwatar da bagade na cocin Jesuit na Tepotzotlán, tare da Higinio de Chávez, babban mai haɗuwa, daga 1753. A daidai wannan lokacin ne ya yi zane-zane na Santa Prisca de Taxco da tsarkakakkiyarta, wanda sun kirkiro wani kyakkyawan hoto wanda yake taƙaita salon wannan mai zane. Hakanan, shi ne marubucin manyan zane-zanen da suka shafi rayuwar tsarkaka: Rayuwar San Ignacio (Profesa da Querétaro) da Rayuwar Santo Domingo a cikin gidan su na babban birnin, waɗanda aka ƙaddara don yin ado da bangon manya da ƙananan kayanta. Ana danganta ayyuka ɗari uku a gare shi. Ya kasance mai zanan ɗakin ga Akbishop na Mexico, Manuel Rubio y Salinas; Godiya a gare shi, wani aikin sa, hoton Lady ɗinmu na Guadalupe, ya zo gaban Paparoma Benedict XIV, wanda, cikin sha'awa, ya bayyana yadda irin wannan abin al'ajabin bai faru a cikin wata ƙasa ba kamar New Spain, a kan tudun Tepeyac. Wannan ya sanya Cabrera ya zama mai zane-zanen Guadalupano. Mai nasara, kwamitocin da yawa daga addinai da masu zaman kansu suka buƙaci shi, mai yiwuwa ne ya kafa babban taron bita, daga inda aka yi yawancin ayyuka da irin wannan babban abokin harka ya yi.
Miguel Cabrera ya yi fice a cikin nau'in hoto. Ba a rage shi zuwa aikace-aikacen girke-girke da na tarurruka ba, amma duk da cewa suna aiwatar da batutuwan, kasancewar mai zanen halin da suke ciki amma kuma na daidaikunsu. Kyawawan hotunansa na zuhudu, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (National Museum of History), Sor Francisca Ana de Neve (sacristy na Santa Rosa de Querétaro) da Sor Agustina Arozqueta (National Museum of Viceroyalty, in Tepotzotlán), kyaututtuka uku ne ga mace: ga hankalinta, kyawunta da rayuwarta ta ciki.
Sanannen aiki shine babban hoton Dona Bárbara de Ovando y Rivadeneira da Guardian Angel dinta, da kuma hoton Luz de Padiña y Cervantes mai ban mamaki (Gidan Tarihi na Brooklyn) da mafi ƙarancin abin da ya yi na Mariscala de Castilla. Wanda Fray Toribio de Nuestra Señora ya zana (San Fernando temple, Mexico City), Father Ignacio Amorín (National Museum of History), Manuel Rubio y Salinas kansa (Taxco, Chapultepec da Cathedral of Mexico); ga manya da masu hannu da shuni kamar theididdigar Santiago de Calimay da membobin ƙaramin ofishin jakadancin na Mexico City.
Ya yi fice a matsayin mai zanan costumbrista, shi ne marubucin Castas, zane-zanen zane-zane goma sha shida, waɗanda muka sani guda goma sha biyu (takwas suna cikin Gidan Tarihi na Amurka a Madrid, uku a Monterrey, wani kuma a Amurka). Miguel Cabrera ya mutu a cikin 1768.
