Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera linali dzina lathunthu la wojambulayu yemwe amatanthauzira bwino kuposa ntchito ina iliyonse yapulasitiki yapakatikati pa zaka za zana la 18.
Atabadwira ku Antequera de Oaxaca mu 1695, mwana wamwamuna wa makolo osadziwika komanso mulungu wa banja la mulatto, mwina wophunzitsidwa ku studio ya José de Ibarra, adayamba zaluso ndi zandale pafupifupi 1740.
Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera linali dzina lathunthu la wojambulayu yemwe amatanthauzira bwino kuposa ntchito ina iliyonse yapulasitiki yapakatikati pa zaka za zana la 18. Atabadwira ku Antequera de Oaxaca mu 1695, mwana wamwamuna wa makolo osadziwika komanso mulungu wa banja la mulatto, mwina wophunzitsidwa ku studio ya José de Ibarra, adayamba zaluso ndi zandale pafupifupi 1740.
Adayamba ngati kontrakitala pakupha zida zopangira guwa lansembe ku tchalitchi cha Jesuit ku Tepotzotlán, limodzi ndi Higinio de Chávez, katswiri wamsonkho, kuyambira 1753. Nthawi yomweyo adapanga nsalu za Santa Prisca de Taxco ndi sacristy yake, yomwe amapanga zojambula zokongola zomwe zimafotokozera mwachidule mawonekedwe a wojambulayu. Momwemonso, ndiye mlembi wazithunzi zazikulu zokhudzana ndi miyoyo ya oyera mtima: Life of San Ignacio (Profesa ndi Querétaro) ndi Life of Santo Domingo m'nyumba yake yachifumu ku likulu, yomwe imayenera kukongoletsa makoma azipinda zake zapamwamba komanso zapansi. Ntchito mazana atatu akuti ndi iye. Iye anali wojambula chipinda kwa bishopu wamkulu wa Mexico, Manuel Rubio y Salinas; Tithokoze iye, ntchito yake, chithunzi cha Dona Wathu wa Guadalupe, adamuwona Papa Benedict XIV, yemwe, pochita chidwi, adadandaula kuti chozizwitsa chotere sichinachitike m'dziko lililonse monga ku New Spain, paphiri la Tepeyac. Izi zidapangitsa Cabrera kukhala wojambula wokhazikika ku Guadalupano. Wopambana, wolimbikitsidwa ndi mabungwe ambiri achipembedzo komanso anthu wamba, zikuwoneka kuti adapanga msonkhano waukulu, komwe ntchito zambiri zopangidwa ndi makasitomala ambiri.
Miguel Cabrera ndiwodziwika bwino pamtundu wazithunzi. Sichingochepetsedwa chifukwa chogwiritsa ntchito maphikidwe ndi misonkhano, koma ngakhale iwo amapanga maphunzirowa, pokhala ojambula pawokha komanso payekhapayekha. Zithunzi zake zokongola za masisitere, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (National Museum of History), Sor Francisca Ana de Neve (sacristy wa Santa Rosa de Querétaro) ndi Sor Agustina Arozqueta (National Museum of the Viceroyalty, ku Tepotzotlán), ndi zifukwa zitatu kwa mkazi: luntha lake, kukongola kwake komanso moyo wake wamkati.
Ntchito yodziwika bwino ndi chithunzi chokongola cha Dona Bárbara de Ovando y Rivadeneira ndi Guardian Angel wake, komanso chithunzi chodabwitsa cha Luz de Padiña y Cervantes (Brooklyn Museum) komanso chosadabwitsa chomwe adapanga Mariscala de Castilla. Chojambula ndi Fray Toribio de Nuestra Señora (San Fernando temple, Mexico City), Bambo Ignacio Amorín (National Museum of History), Manuel Rubio y Salinas mwiniwake (Taxco, Chapultepec ndi Cathedral of Mexico); kwa olemekezeka ndi opindulitsa monga Count of Santiago de Calimay ndi mamembala a kazembe wa Mexico City.
Adadziwika ngati wojambula wotsika mtengo, ndiye mlembi wa Castas, zojambula khumi ndi zisanu ndi chimodzi, zomwe timadziwa khumi ndi awiri (asanu ndi atatu ali ku Museum of America ku Madrid, atatu ku Monterrey, ndi ena ku United States). Miguel Cabrera anamwalira mu 1768.
