Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish, 1617-1682
Title: Portrait of Josua van Belle
Date: 1670
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
125 x 102 cm
Signed: on verso: 1670
Credit Line: Purchased, 1866
Object Number: NGI.30
ProvenanceJosua van Belle's collection in Seville from 1670 and later presumably in Rotterdam; purchased in London, 1866, for £100 (Grant-in-Aid).
Exhibition HistoryMurillo IV Centenario, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, 28 November 2018 - 17 March 2019
Label TextBorn in Rotterdam, Josua van Belle was a Dutch shipping merchant who lived for a period in Seville, where this portrait was painted. Van Belle had a celebrated collection of paintings, including Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid (NGI.4535), now in the National Gallery of Ireland. Principally known for his religious paintings, the Spanish artist Murillo painted a handful of portraits of which this is one of the finest. They generally reveal the influence of court portraits by Velázquez and Anthonis Mor, a Flemish artist working in Madrid.

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