Diego VelázquezSpanish, 1599–1660The Immaculate Conception
May one see it?
Unknown
The National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- NG6424
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: The National Gallery — Diego Velázquez · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Meanwhile, in the life of Diego Velázquez
The whole life1611–1617
Friendship with Alonso Cano and Francisco de Zurbarán
In the school of Pacheco — a man of broad culture and censor of religious painting for the Inquisition in Seville — Velázquez befriended the future sculptor and painter Alonso Cano and Francisco de Zurbarán.
1611–1622 · Workplace
Seville
14 March 1617
Qualifies as a master painter
Velázquez passed his examination and, with Pacheco's backing, was admitted to the painters' guild of Seville, with the right “to practise his art in the kingdom, keep a workshop and hire apprentices”.
23 April 1618
Marries Juana, his teacher's daughter
The nineteen-year-old Velázquez married Pacheco's fifteen-year-old daughter Juana. Such marriages between painters' families were common, as they eased the search for work and commissions.
23 April 1618
Married: Juana Pacheco
1619–1621
Births of his daughters Francisca and Ignacia
His elder daughter Francisca was born in 1619, and Ignacia in 1621; Ignacia died in infancy.
