Murillo 54 High Resolution Images

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted tender religious scenes and lively pictures of everyday people in seventeenth-century Spain. His warm colour, soft light and sympathetic treatment of children give his work a particularly human appeal.

This download features 54 hi-res images in JPEG format by the Spanish artist, Murillo.

The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3122 pixels wide/tall to 6530 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realistic portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive record of the everyday life of his times. He also painted two self-portraits.

Murillo was probably born in December 1617 to Gaspar Esteban, an accomplished barber surgeon, and María Pérez Murillo. He may have been born in Seville or in Pilas, a smaller Andalusian town. It is clear that he was baptised in Santa María Magdalena, a parish in Seville, in 1618. After his parents died in 1627 and 1628, he became a ward of his older sister Ana and her husband, Juan Agustín Lagares, who coincidentally also happened to be a barber. Murillo seemed to have remained close to the couple, considering he did not leave their house until his marriage in 1645. Eleven years later, he was named the executor of Lagares' will despite his sister having already died. Murillo seldom used his father's surname, and instead took his surname from his maternal grandmother, Elvira Murillo.

Read our full Murillo biography.