A Knight of Alcántara or Calatrava, Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, ca. 1650–55
A Knight of Alcántara or Calatrava, ca. 1650–55, Oil on canvas, Overall, with added strips, 77 x 43 3/4 in. ( x cm); original canvas 77 x 38 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville), The sitter in this portrait wears a pendant with a symbol of a military order. In the nineteenth century the sitter was identified as Don Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio (1640–ca. 1695), whose passion for painting led him to study with both Murillo and Mattia Preti
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