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In Castile. 483 worthy of much praise as an artist, is noticeable for the exactitude with which he succeeded in imitating the works of the great Murillo. A copy by him of Murillo's portrait of himself, now at Al thorp, is in the Madrid Gallery. Of his original works, we may notice an Enthroned Madonna in the cathedral of Seville. Of his copies of Murillo's works, we may mention a Holy Family, painted for the church of Maria la Blanca de Seville, which was at the time thought to be the original ; and a S. John and the Lamb after the picture now in the National Gallery. It is probable that many pictures, commonly called replicas by Murillo, are copies by Tobar. Francisco Meneses Osorio (fl. ab. 1700) is also chiefly famous for his exact copies of Murillo's works ; he excelled especially in representing beggar boys and similar subjects. He is said to have partly finished the S. Catherine which Murillo's death caused him to leave uncompleted. Seville possesses the greater part of Osorio' s works. 3. The Castilian School. This can not be called the school of Madrid, for, during the lifetime of the painters who founded it, Madrid did not as yet exist, at least, not as the capital of the Spanish monarchy. But after the caprice of Philip II. had raised Madrid to the rank of a metropolis, all the dispersed elements of the Castilian school soon assembled in that city. It was at Valladolid that Alonso Berruguete lived ; at Badajoz, Luis de Morales ; at Logrono, in the Rioja, Juan Fernandez Navarrete; at Toledo, Domenico Theotocopuli. But we must not pass by these earlier masters without a short mention of Alonso Berruguete, painter, sculptor, and architect 112