Anselmo Miguel Nieto (Valladolid, 1881 - 1964) was a Spanish painter.
Born into a modest family, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Valladolid, then led by the artist José Martà and Monsó. He went to London in 1900 to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, in the company of who would be his inseparable friend for life, the painter Aurelio Arteta Bilbao. At that time he met great artists, including Pablo Picasso. Scholarship, went to complete his training in Rome and Paris, finally settling in the capital of Spain in 1906. It took off when its recognition by participating in international exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Munich. In 1922 he left for seven years to Argentina and Chile, also with his friend, Julio Romero de Torres.
He returned to Spain in 1946, just after the Second World War. From that moment, as with other artists of the time, his fame was forgotten. He was appointed professor at the Academy of San Fernando.
Noted as a painter of portraits, especially female, which followed in the footsteps of Zurbarán or the same Romero de Torres, a work endowed with great sensuality. It evolved from the expressionist realism to modernism, and acknowledges the influence of JoaquÃn Sorolla painting in luminosity.
It was also a great friend of the meetings in Madrid, where he could be seen next to Jacinto Benavente.