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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This painting shows two boys offering bread and garlic soup, a traditional Spanish dish, to a beggar child. It is one of a pair of paintings by Villavicencio in the collection at Leicester, both with young peasant boys as their subject. The artist was born into an aristocratic family in Seville in the seventeenth century and was educated for a military career. He chose instead to become a painter and, after training with Murillo, travelled to Malta, where he underwent religious instruction. He later returned to Spain and worked alongside Murillo concentrating on portraits, religious works and, like Murillo, pictures of children. | Subjects: | figure; landscape; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Núñez de Villavicencio, Pedro (Spanish painter, born 1640, died 1693-1698) Æ Previously attributed to school of Murillo, Bartolomé Estebán (Spanish painter and draftsman, 1618-1682) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8549... | Go to resource |
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