National Gallery Acquires Velazquez Masterpiece: The National Gallery has just acquired an early masterpiece by Velazquez, "The Immaculate Conception" (measuring 53 X 40 ins.), which has been purchased from the Woodall Trustees under private treety arrangements. The picture had previously been on loan to the screen in the Spanish Room (XVIII) with some explanatory text. The painting is first recorded in 1800 in the chapter House of the now destroyed Convent of the Shod Carmelites in Seville, along with its companion, "S. John the Evangelist on Patmos", which the Gallery bought in 1956. The two pictures may well have been hanging in the Convent from probably painted about 1618 and certainly before 1623, when the young painter (aged only 24) moved from his native Seville to become a court artist to King Philip IV at Madrid.
Photo shows "The Velazquez masterpiece, "The Immaculate Conception", which has been acquired by the National Gallery.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Photo is dated 01-01-1974.
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