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pictures in the Royal Palace, Madrid, the Escorial, etc.; accompanied the French ambassador on his artistic journeys in 1659, and created a new school of painting with the magical works of his third style. In 1660 a meeting of the French and Spanish courts was fixed to take place on the Isle of Pheasants in the River Bidassoa, to celebrate the nuptials of Louis XIV. and the Infanta Maria Teresa. In March Velasquez was sent to erect a pavilion on the island, and prepare the Castle of Fuenterrabia for the royal reception. The fatigue consequent upon his great labours proved too much for his constitution. After his return to Madrid, July 31, he became alarmingly ill, and a week later, Friday, Aug. 7, breathed his last. The corpse lay in state for two days, habited in the full dress of a Knight of Santiago, and was then carried by night to the parish church of San Juan, where it was buried in the vault below the family chapel of the Fuensalidas. Works: Adoration of Magi, Christ on the Cross, Coronation of Virgin, Anthony the Abbot and Paul the Hermit, Los Borrachos, Forge of Vulcan, Las Lanzas, Las Hilanderas, Las Meninas, Mercury and Argus, Portrait of Philip III., do. of Margarita of Austria, do. of Philip IV. (7), do. of Isabel of Bourbon, do. of Don Baltasar Cárlos (3), do. of Conde de Oliváres, do. of Infanta Doña Maria, do. of Don Cárlos, do. of Don Fernando, do. of Doña Mariana of Austria (3), do. of Doña Maria Teresa of Austria, do. of Luis de Góngora, do. of Doña Juana Pacheco, do. of Francisca—daughter of Velasquez, do. of Antonio Alonso Pimentel, do. of Martinez Montañes, do. of Pablillos de Valladolid, do. of Pernia, do. of Don Juan de Austria, do. of El Primo, do. of Sebastian de Morra, do. of Don Antonio, do. of El Niño de Vallecas, do. of El Bobo de Coria, Æsop, Menippus, Mars, portrait of Alonso Martinez de Espinar, and other portraits, Arch of Titus, Villa Medici (2), Fountain of Tritons, Lake at Buen Retiro, and other landscapes, Madrid Museum; Coat of Joseph, Escorial; Water Carrier, Royal Palace, Madrid; Saint with Palm Branch, Portraits of Philip IV., his Queen, and seven others, two Landscapes, Salamanca Gallery, ib.; Portrait of Doña Antonia de Haro, Duke of Alva, ib.; Nativity, Still-Life (2), Landscape, Portraits (2), Seville Museum; Young Cavalier, sketches for portraits of Philip IV. and Conde de Oliváres, Montpensier Gallery, ib.; Portrait of Velasquez, Valencia Museum; Portrait of Infanta Maria Margarita, do. of Philip IV., do. of Don Pedro de Altamira, Meeting of Artists, Louvre, Paris; Portrait of Don Baltasar Cárlos, Landscape, Hague Museum; Portrait of Don Baltasar Cárlos, Amsterdam Museum; Portrait, Brussels Museum; Portrait of Alessandro del Borro, do. of Mariana—sister of Philip IV., Berlin Museum; Portrait of Conde de Oliváres, Personages of Court of Philip IV., two male portraits, Dresden Museum; Portrait of Cardinal Borgia, do. of Infanta Margarita Teresa, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Portrait of Infanta Maria Teresa, do. of Velasquez (?), Male Portrait, Munich Gallery; Laughing Idiot, Family of Velasquez, Portrait of Philip IV. (2), do. of Don Baltasar Cárlos, do. of an Infanta, do. of Infante Don Philip Prosper, do. of Infanta Maria Teresa, do. of Infanta Margarita Maria, Vienna Museum; Portrait of Philip IV. (2), Conde de Oliváres (2), Pope Innocent X., Peasant Laughing, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait, Leuchtenberg Collection, ib.; Portrait of Philip IV., Stockholm Museum; Portrait of Philip IV., do. of Velasquez, two Male Portraits, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Portrait of Philip IV., do. of Velasquez, Bacchanalian Scene, Uffizi, ib.; Madonna, Palazzo Cataneo, Genoa; Portrait of Innocent X., Palazzo Doria, Rome; Portrait of Philip IV., Turin Gallery; Portrait of Philip IV. (2), Adoration of Shepherds, Boar Hunt, Dead Warrior, Praying Children before Ecce Homo, National Gallery, London; Portrait of Philip IV., Dulwich Gallery, ib.; Portrait of Philip IV., do. of Queen of Philip IV., Hampton Court Palace, ib.; Water Carrier, Fair with Gypsies, Fortified