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FRANCISCO PACHECO (1571-1654)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PACHECO (1571-1654)  , See also:Spanish painter and See also:art historian, was See also:born at See also:Seville in 1571 . Favourable specimens of his See also:style are to be setn in the See also:Madrid picture See also:gallery, and also in two churches at See also:Alcala de Guadaira near Seville . He attained See also:great popularity, and about the beginning of the 17th See also:century opened an See also:academy of See also:painting which was largely attended . Of his pupils by far the most distinguished was See also:Velazquez, who afterwards became his son-in-See also:law . 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 See also: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 See also:information it contains on matters See also:relating to Spanish art . He died in 1654 .

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