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This Spanish painter and engraver was an exact contemporary of Murillo as well as his greatest rival as a painter in Seville at that time. The two have often been compared on the rather artificial bas [+]
He was the son of a lawyer at the Royal Court of Burgos but must have moved to Madrid when quite young. His second marriage—to a painter's daughter—took place there in 1645. According to Palomino, he [+]
In the late sixteen-sixties, this disciple of Alonso Cano became the most active artist in his native city. In 1665-1666, he made a series of canvases for the cloister of the convent of Nuestra Señora [+]