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Bartolom¨¦ Esteban Murillo was the youngest of fourteen children of a Sevillian barber, Gaspar Esteban, and his wife Maria Peres. In 1627, his father died, a year later he lost his mother. Murillo¡¯s elder sisters and brothers were already grown up and could take care of themselves, while the 10 year old Bartolom¨¦ was adopted into the family of his aunt, married to a wealthy Sevillian doctor.
Murillo was apprenticed early to a painter Juan del Castillo (1584-1640). When, in 1639, Castillo left Seville for Cadiz, Murillo did not enter any workshop of a known artist, as it was the traditional way of all the beginners, but preferred to stay independent. It is said that to gain a living Murillo started to make sargas - cheap paintings on rough canvas sold at country fairs, and shipped to America by traders. Obviously his paintings appealed to the taste of the public, besides they revealed a certain talent of the young man
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