I love the National Gallery in London and I love looking at this painting. It's by Spanoish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-82). It's called Portrait of Don Justino de Neve. "The painting is inscribed and dated 1665 on the panel beneath the coat of arms. Don Justino de Neve was a canon of Seville Cathedral and a close friend of Murillo. He was instrumental in commissioning two of Murillo's celebrated series of church decorations, those of S. Maria la Blanca (1662/5) and those for the Hospital of the Venerable Sacerdotes (1670s), the foundation to which the portrait was left on Don Justino's death in 1685."
Murillo has done several great works including the Immaculate Conception and St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness to name a few.
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