Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618–1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter born in Seville, where he trained with his uncle Juan del Castillo. His first major commission was eleven canvases for Seville's San Francisco convent, painted between 1645 and 1648 and depicting stories of Franciscan saints.

In 1660 he co-founded Seville's Academy of Fine Arts. He became famous for luminous religious paintings, above all the Immaculate Conception, and warm scenes of street children.

He also painted genre works such as The Young Beggar. He died in 1682 after a fall from a scaffold while working at Cádiz.