Drawing

december 1617

Born

1645

Return to Seville and Marriage

Murillo returned to Seville and married Beatriz Cabrera y Villalobos, with whom he had ten children; only one of them, Gabriel, followed his father's path as a painter.

1645–1648

First Major Commission

In the year of his wedding Murillo received his first major commission — eleven paintings of Franciscan saints for the Convent of San Francisco in Seville; he worked on them from 1645 to 1648.

1660

Co-founder of the Academy of Fine Arts

Murillo became one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and in 1660 shared its direction with Francisco Herrera the Younger.

c. 1681 – 1682

Fall from Scaffolding in Cádiz

A few months before his death Murillo fell from scaffolding while working on a fresco in the Capuchin church in Cádiz; the fresco was completed by his pupil Francisco Meneses Osorio.

3 april 1682

Died