De Madeira a Canarias. Fray Gerardo de Abreu (1748-1787...) y los frontales pintados de altar

In this paper we study the biography of the painter Gerardo Francisco de Abreu (1748-1787...), born in Funchal and resident in Santa Cruz de Tenerife during the 1770s. With these circumstances and his hypothetical profession as a Franciscan friar in 1779, the context that made possible a previous learning is analyzed, as well as the conservative sense of the work that he attended at the end of the 18th century and, specially, the value that he acquires to establish artistic interrelationships between the Atlantic islands, an extensible phenomenon to several painters of the Villavicencio family. From an altarpiece frontal signed and dated in 1787, two more can be attributed to him, preserved in La Orotava and Los Realejos.