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Art Hall at the State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg,
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Bartolomé
Esteban Murillo was born in 1617 in Seville. He was the
youngest of fourteen children of a Sevillian barber, Gaspar Esteban, and
his wife Maria Peres. In 1627, his father died, a year later he lost his
mother. Murillo's elder sisters and brothers were already grown up and
could take care of themselves, while the 10 year old Bartolomé was
adopted into the family of his aunt, married to a wealthy Sevillian
doctor. Murillo was apprenticed early to a painter Juan del Castillo
(1584-1640). When, in 1639, Castillo left Seville for Cadiz, Murillo did
not enter any workshop of a known artist, as it was the traditional way
of all the beginners, but preferred to stay independent. It is said that
to gain a living Murillo started
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