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In Andalucia. 481 for the rejoicings; — all is great and wonderful in com- position, expression and incomparable colouring. This Prodigal S<m deserves, perhaps, to be called the greatest work of Murillo out of Spain. The private galleries of England are tolerably rich in works by and attributed to Murillo. Of his ten works in the Louvre the most famous are the Immaculate Conception, for which the enormous sum of 615,300 francs was paid, and the Beggar Boy, who is crouching on the stone floor of a prison or a garret, with a pitcher by his side. Ignacio Iriarte (1620 — 1685) was famous as a landscape painter. Murillo frequently painted figures in his land- scapes, but this partnership — which was beneficial to both — was unfortunately dissolved by a quarrel as to who should paint first and who last on the Life of David which had been ordered by the Marquis of Villamanrique. Murillo finally changed the subject to the Life of Jacob, and executed the whole work himself. It is now in the Grosvenor House Gallery. Madrid possesses several of Iriarte' s best pictures. The Louvre has a Jacob's Bream. Francisco de Herrera (1622—1685) is called "el Mozo" (the younger) to distinguish him from his father " el Viejo." After studying for some time with his father, he left him on account of his violence, and went to Rome and then improved his style by close attention to the works of the great Italian painters. Besides historic pictures, he excelled in painting flowers and still life, and especially fish, whence he was called by the Italians " lo Spagnuolo degli Pesci." Sebastian Gomez (1646 — 1690 ?), commonly called the " Mulatto of Murillo," was in a great measure self-taught. EHA I I