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FRANCISCO See also: Spanish painter and See also: art historian, was See also: born at Seville in 1571
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Favourable specimens of his See also: style are to be setn in the See also: Madrid picture gallery, and also in two churches at Alcala de Guadaira near Seville
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He attained See also: great popularity, and about the beginning of the 17th century opened an See also: academy of See also: painting which was largely attended
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Of his pupils by far the most distinguished was Velazquez, who afterwards became his son-in-See also: law
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From about 1625 he gave up painting and betook himself to See also: literary society and pursuits; the most important of his See also: works in this department is a See also: treatise on the art of painting (Arte de la pintura: su antigiiedad y grandeza, 1649), which is of considerable value for the information it contains on matters See also: relating to Spanish art
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He died in 1654
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