Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish Artist · 1617–1682
7 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
The market for Bartolomé Estebán Murillo's pictures was so large and lucrative that the king refused to allow their export from the country. Murillo himself never left Spain. Living with his uncle after his parents died, the young Murillo made devotional pictures to sell at Seville fairs. Later, he was apprenticed to local painters. Like all Spanish painters of his time working outside the court,
Works
A Monk Carrying a Cross
Getty Museum · about 1680–1700
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1665–72
The Christ Child as the Good Shepherd
Getty Museum · about 1675–1680
The Good Shepherd
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 20th century
The Immaculate Conception
Getty Museum · about 1675–1680
The Youthful Saint John the Baptist Seated in a Landscape (recto); Unidentified Figure Composition (Dido and Aeneas?) (verso)
Getty Museum · about 1655
Virgin and Child
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1670s