The artist is unknown, although it has been controversially attributed to Murillo.
Murillo began his art studies under Juan del Castillo in Seville, he became familiar with Molanus (Ian van der Meulen or Molano) art rules and Flemish painting; the great commercial importance of Seville at the time ensured that he was also subject to influences from other regions.
He used a peculiar varnish on his pictures, which Murillo compared to crystal.
In 1894 Pranaitis was subject to legal proceedings on a charge of blackmail (for demanding 1000 rubles from a framing workshop in indemnification for a spoilt cheap picture which he claimed to be a picture by Murillo).
One of the rooms, the Spanish room (named by reason of the Murillo paintings which hang there), has walls hung with gilded leather.
Murillo | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | Esteban Moctezuma | Diego Murillo Bejarano | Bartolomé Mitre | Bartolomé de las Casas | San Esteban de Gormaz | Jade Esteban Estrada | Esteban Maroto | Murillo's | Michel Esteban | Esteban Terradas i Illa | Esteban Alvarado | Battle of San Esteban de Gormaz | San Esteban National Park | San Esteban de Nogales | San Esteban | Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso | Murillo de Río Leza | Manuel Murillo Toro | La Fuente de San Esteban | Jared Murillo (dancer) | Jared Murillo | Esteban Villa | Esteban Salas y Castro | Esteban Jordan | Esteban de Perea | Esteban Batista | Colegio San Bartolomé la Merced | Bartolomé Ordóñez |
The style garnered a number of adherents in Spain, and was to influence the Baroque or Golden Age Spanish painters, especially Zurbarán, Velázquez and Murillo.
The artist is unknown, although it has been controversially attributed to Murillo or Annibale Carracci.
He engraved a: Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Fountain after Il Garofalo; The Penitent Magdalene after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo; Madonna del Rosario after Sassoferrato; and Aurora and Cephalus after Annibale Carracci.
He was one of the artists who contributed in 1668 to the formation of the Seville Academy of painters established by Herrera and Murillo.
Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio.