Excerpt from Murillo Who was Murillo, and wherefore had he come to Madrid? He was a workman's child, born in the last week of the year 1617 in Seville. His parents were poor people working hard for a somewhat scanty livelihood, and his mother added to the family earnings by the sale of fruit. Bartolome Esteban was left almost entirely to himself to run wild as he liked, and in this way he became independent and self-reliant. Fortune was to give him every chance for his self-reliance, for before he was eleven years Old both his parents were carried Off by pestilence, and the lad was left to the care of his mother's only brother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.