Cerezo was born in Burgos to his father Mateo Cerezo the Elder. In 1654 he moved to Madrid and studied with Juan Carreño de Miranda and possibly with Antonio de Pereda.
He died young at age forty years, and much of his work is at the Prado Museum in Madrid, as well as at the Museo de Burgos.
Works
Ecce Homo, 1650, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Assumption of Mary (Asunción de María), c. 1650, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Desposorios místicos de Santa Catalina, Palencia Cathedral.
The Assumption of Our Lady (La Asunción de Nuestra Señora), San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián