Karel Škréta

Karel Škréta Šotnovský of Závořice (Czech: Karel Škréta Šotnovský ze Závořic; 1610 – 30 July 1674) was a portrait painter who worked in the Baroque style. He was from Bohemia. He lived through the Thirty Years' War which caused him some hardships as a Protestant which led him to leave Prague for Saxony and then Italy.