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Born in Extremadura (Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz), he was trained in Seville, where he formed a friendship with Velázquez that would last all his life. He went away temporarily to Llerena and returned to settle down in Seville, achieving great success and becoming the undeniable master of the moment. In 1634 he travelled to Madrid, at Velázquez's invitation, to paint some pictures for the Buen Retiro Palace. On his return to Seville, with the experience of everything he had seen in Madrid, he carried out important commissions, of which the most outstanding is the set of paintings for the Guadalupe Monastery. After this period of the culmination of his career, the change in artistic taste imposed by the success of Murillo's work produced a drop in his prestige and commissions were hard to come by. He then painted for the American market and, finally, he went to Mexico where fortune did not accompany him, and he died in that city.
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