Immaculate Conception Italian a studio or eighteenth-century copy

a studio or eighteenth-century copy of a picture by Van de Velde of unknown whereabouts

On the right the flagship of the English Streights Fleet

) dormant passions of concealed eyes softened that ice which hardened the heart more than diamond

These were the works eagerly sought by collectors in the eighteenth century - but Murillo's contemporary fame rested primarily upon his religious paintings

peering into the dregs of the jug

Immaculate Conception Italian a studio or eighteenth-century copyProbably an early copy of a lost work by Murillo. A lost picture almost identical to this, except for the fact that the Virgin is looking heavenward, is recorded in an engraving by E. de Paula Marti of 1794.