Bartolome Estaban Murillo (1617-1682), The Young St. John the Baptist (c. 1645).

Murillo’s early influences were Francisco de Zurbarán and Jusepe de Ribera. His early works were genre subjects, however, he gained a reputation for his paintings of the Virgin and Child, and the Immaculate Conception and other religious subjects.

Bartolome Estaban Murillo (1617-1682), St. John the Baptist as a Boy (c. 1660)