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Bartolome Murillo was born in Seville, Spain on January 1, 1617 and was
orphaned at the age of ten. He studied under Juan del
Castillo. By the age of twenty-three he was already painting on
his own and selling his pictures itinerantly at fairs in Seville. His
early works are somewhat clumsy and heavy in color.
He visited
Madrid between 1641 and 1644, at which time he could have studied and
profited by the works of Rubens, Van Dyck, Titian and Correggio which
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