Velazquez . and he busied himself copying old picturesand painting new ones. Like many of theartists who go for the first time to Italy,he was influenced in some degree by Guido,who was then living. He painted his ownportrait, which is to be seen in the CapitolineMuseum, and went from Rome to Naples,returning to Madrid in the early part of might be mentioned in this place thatthe painters eldest daughter was growingup, and that he married her three yearslater to one of his pupils, the artist J. B. delMazo. This clever artist, who was treatedby his master Velazquez as Velazquez hadbeen
Velazquez . and he busied himself copying old picturesand painting new ones. Like many of theartists who go for the first time to Italy,he was influenced in some degree by Guido,who was then living. He painted his ownportrait, which is to be seen in the CapitolineMuseum, and went from Rome to Naples,returning to Madrid in the early part of might be mentioned in this place thatthe painters eldest daughter was growingup, and that he married her three yearslater to one of his pupils, the artist J. B. delMazo. This clever artist, who was treatedby his master Velazquez as Velazquez hadbeen treated by his master Pacheco, isheld by critics to be responsible for manypictures generally ascribed to his father-in-law. There is a picture in the Wallace PLATE INFANTE DON BALTHASAR CARLOS This is one of the Prado pictures of King Philips eldest sonby his first wife, the unfortunate little prince who died while hewas yet a boy. When this picture was painted Don BalthasarCarlos was six years VELAZQUEZ 35 Collection known as the Lady with theFan, which is thought by no less a criticthan Senor Beruete to represent the youngFrancesca Velazquez, who became theSeiiora del Mazo when she was onlyfifteen years old. Shortly after his return to Madrid, Vel-azquez came under the influence of ElGreco, who had died in 1614, and left somewonderful pictures that may be seen to-dayin Toledo. This fact is important, not thatthe influence resulted in imitation, but be-cause it was distinctly inspiring, and Grecois a painter who is coming slowly beforethe public. [ It cannot be doubted that hisinfluence on artists through Velazquez hasbeen very deep and abiding, particularlyin portraiture.^] In the years following the return fromItaly, Velazquez painted some of the pic- 36 VELAZQUEZ tures of the little prince Don BalthasarCarlos, the kings son, who was born in1629, and died in 1646, the year of hisbetrothal to Mariana of Austria. Thereare many pictures of this interesting ladwho
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