( fl Seville, 1487; d before 1526). Spanish sculptor and wood-carver. He was trained by Nufro S?nchez, one of the artists responsible for the choir-stalls in Seville Cathedral. Mill?n is documented as working on the high altar retable of Seville Cathedral in 1507-8, where two scenes depicting the Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate and the Birth of the Virgin can be attributed to him. The only earliest known work in wood attributed to him is the statue of St Agnes on the portal of S In?s, Seville. Although he was a good wood-carver, Mill?n is better known for his work in polychrome terracotta. The signed archivolt prophets on the baptism portal of the west fa?ade of Seville Cathedral show that he was influenced by Lorenzo Mercadante de Breta?a, who had earlier worked there. Other works by Mill?n in polychrome terracotta, made for the chapel of S Laureano in Seville Cathedral, are a Man of Sorrows (Seville, Mus. B.-A.) from El Garrobo (Huelva), a Lamentation group (St Petersburg, Hermitage) from Aracena Abbey near Seville and a Deposition (Seville, Mus. B.-A.). Also in Seville Cathedral are a signed terracotta statue of the Virgen del Pilar in the chapel of Our Lady and a St James the Greater (1506). In 1504 Mill?n made a tondo in maiolica depicting SS Cosmas and Damian for the portal of S Paula, Seville, which also incorporated work imported from the della Robbia workshop in Florence. He also made Christ at the Column (Seville, Mus. B.-A.) for S In?s, Seville, and a St Michael from the convent of S Florentina de Ecija (London, V&A).
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