ARTIST: - (American, early 20 century) AFTER Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617 - 1682)
TITLE: The Good Shepherd
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: One small puncture by the lower edge. Few small paint losses. Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Some damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: 30 x 26 inches / 76 x 66 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
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 were to be seen there. This would explain his increasingly harmonious color, the subtler atmosphere and the freer brushwork which soon began to characterize his style. He worked for a time in 1642 under Velasquez in Madrid.