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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618 - 1682)

• Was a Spanish painter.
• After his parents died in 1627 and 1628, he became a ward of his older sister, Ana, and her husband, Juan Agustín Lagares.
• Murillo seemed to have remained close to the couple considering he did not leave their house until his marriage in 1645. 
• 11 years later, he would be 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.
• Google marked the 400 years since Murillo's birth with a doodle on 29 November 2018.