Spanish painter.
","project":"lbso","type":"biographical note","value":"Spanish painter."},{"formatted":"Murillo owned five domestically enslaved people during his lifetime including Juana de Santiago, whose son Tomás - described as ‘white of good body and curly hair’ - he freed in 1676, a young Black man named Martín Moreno, whom he sold to Rodrigo Díez de Noreña in 1680, and Sebastián Gómez, although recent research has cast doubt on whether Gómez was of African descent or enslaved.
","project":"lbso","type":"slavery connection","value":"Murillo owned five domestically enslaved people during his lifetime including Juana de Santiago, whose son Tomás - described as ‘white of good body and curly hair’ - he freed in 1676, a young Black man named Martín Moreno, whom he sold to Rodrigo Díez de Noreña in 1680, and Sebastián Gómez, although recent research has cast doubt on whether Gómez was of African descent or enslaved."},{"formatted":"No known connections with abolition.
","project":"lbso","type":"abolition connection","value":"No known connections with abolition."},{"formatted":"Painter: Murillo painted NG13, NG74, NG176, NG5931, NG6153, NG6448, NG3910 and NG3938.
","project":"lbso","type":"national gallery painting connection","value":"Painter: Murillo painted NG13, NG74, NG176, NG5931, NG6153, NG6448, NG3910 and NG3938."}],"role":[{"type":"NG","value":"artist"}],"death":{"date":[{"from":"1682","to":"1682","value":"1682"}],"@entity":"lifecycle"},"birth":{"date":[{"from":"1617","to":"1617","value":"1617"}],"@entity":"lifecycle"},"@datatype":{"actual":"Individual","base":"agent"},"description":[{"date":[{"from":"2021-10-06"}],"created_formatted":"2021-10-06 11:24:14","author":{"summary":{"title":"The National Gallery (London)"},"@admin":{"uid":"0P5X-0001-0000-0000","id":"agent-652","source":"tms","uuid":"511c84f0-a664-39ab-b653-6db7fc6c345e","status":"public"},"@datatype":{"actual":"Organisation","base":"agent"},"@entity":"reference"},"created":1633515854091,"formatted":"Murillo was the leading painter in Seville in the later 17th century. He remained one of the most admired and popular of all European artists in the 18th and early 19th centuries. His early works were much influenced by the early works of Velázquez, executed before Velázquez left Seville in 1623, and by the paintings of Zurbarán.
Murillo's first famous cycle of paintings was produced for the cloister of the convent of San Francisco in Seville (1645). There followed paintings for the cathedral (1658), and a celebrated series for the church of the Caridad (1667-70), including the National Gallery's 'Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda'.
Visits to Madrid (one certainly in 1658) would have made Murillo familiar with works by Rubens and Van Dyck and contemporary Italian painters. His style became increasingly free in its handling, as is apparent in his many well-known representations of the Immaculate Conception.