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Velazquez in London.(Diego Velazquez )
Diego Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599 and showed an early talent for painting. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, the man who was to become his father-in-law By the time the student was eighteen, however, he was influencing and teaching his master. While Pacheco's religious style was dry, Italianate, and old-fashioned, Velazquez made it vital by introducing natural settings and by depicting the figures as portraits rather than ideal types.
At the same time Velazquez created a number of bodegones, which are paintings of everyday subjects, in which he included many still-life passages. One of the best known of these, painted when he was only about nineteen, is An Old Woman Cooking Eggs of 1618, which is in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.
After visiting Madrid in 1622, Velazquez made contacts with powerful members of the Spanish court. This led to his appointment as a court portrait painter, and again he showed his gift of humanizing his subjects. His first visit to Italy was in 1629, and there he came into contact with works from the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Velazquez in London.(Diego Velazquez )