As the foremost painter in his home city of Seville during the 17th century - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was primarily known for painting religious subjects.
But, it is in his more domestic work - depicting ordinary women and children - that we get an even greater sense of the extraordinary tenderness and sensitivity in his painting style.
With a painting …
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