Portrait of the famous spanish poet and writer francisco de quevedo y villegas (1580-1645), who was lord of the torre de juan abad, knight of the order of santiago and the greatest exponent of conceptism in spain, who was also a staunch enemy of the distinguished cordoban poet luis de góngora y argote, who was the greatest representative of culteranism. This famous canvas, preserved in the valencia institute of don juan, has frequently been attributed to diego velázquez, although in reality it is only one of three copies of the lost original painted by the famous painter from seville and that were executed in his workshop. And the one preserved in the valencia de don juan institute belonged to the counts of oñate since the 17th century, although in 1880 it was sold to the counts of valencia de don juan. However, there are two other versions of it, one in the wellington museum in london and the other in madrid, in the collection of xabier de salas' family. The first two include the inscription referring to the name of the sitter, while the last does not, but does include a "j" in the field on the right, which is the rest of the signature of the author, who according to the latest studies could have been the painter juan van der hamen. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: Mediados del siglo XVII. Dimensions: 48 x 60,5 con marco. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Instituto Valencia of Don Juan. Juan van der Hamen y León - Francisco de Quevedo y Villages
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