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In Andalucia. 477 taking leave of any one, he set out on foot for Madrid. On his arrival at the capital, he went at once to present himself to his fellow-countryman Velazquez, who was twenty years older than himself, and then in the height of his glory. The king's painter received the young traveller with kindness ; he encouraged him, brought him forward, procured him useful work, an entrance to the royal palaces and the Escorial, besides admitting him to his own studio, and giving him advice and lessons. After two years of study in Madrid, Murillo returned to Seville, where his first works were for the convent of S. Francisco. In 1660 he established the Academy of Seville, but he held the presidentship for one year only. He had returned to Seville in 1645, and, until his death, which occurred at that city on the 3rd of April in 1682, — in consequence of a fall from a scaffold while engaged on painting an altar-piece of S. Catherine for the church of the Capuchins at Cadiz — he scarcely left his native town ; and it was during these thirty-seven years that his numerous paintings were executed. Murillo had three styles, which are termed by the Spaniards, frio, cdlido and vaporoso (cold, warm, and aerial). Seville at first was filled to overflowing with Murillo's works; and it has retained a large number of the best. In one of the chapels of its cathedral may be seen the largest painting by Murillo, the Ecstasy of S. Antony of Padua. In the gallery of pictures formed in an old convent are the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, Moses striking the Rock ; and other works in the Provincial Museum are S. Felix of Cantalisi; the Madonna de la Servilleta; 8. Thomas of Villanueva distributing alms to