Andalusian school from the late seventeenth century. Follower of BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (Seville, 1617 - Cádiz, 1682)."Virgin of milk".Oil on canvas. Relined.It presents important damages and overpaints.Measurements: 163 x 104 cm.Close to Murillo's models, the present work offers us a tender image of the Virgin and Child. It is a scene of the theme of the Virgin of milk in which the child is about to suckle from his mother's breast, although the viewer has distracted him for a moment. The popularity of Murillo's Virgins derives from his talent to paint a common theme with sweetness and emotion. Considered by some to be the painter who best defines the Spanish Baroque, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo exerted a remarkable influence among his Sevillian contemporaries and, after his death, his trail can be found in other schools even to this day, especially in religious art. In the 18th century his language and iconographic formulas were widely followed and repeated, and during Romanticism numerous copies of his works were made. However, it will be in the Baroque of the eighteenth century when the importance of his influence is most appreciated, spread by his numerous disciples and followers. In fact, in that century he was the best known and most appreciated Spanish painter outside Spain, the only one of whom Sandrart includes a biography in his "Academia picturae eruditae", a work of the late seventeenth century. In the last decades of the 17th century, the emotional, sweet and delicate sentimentality of Murillo prevailed in Seville over the more dramatic one of Valdés Leal, and hence the predominance of his influence in the following century. However, as time progresses, we will find ourselves before an increasingly superficial influence, which focuses on the imitation of models and compositions but leaving aside its plastic language, in favor of formulas more typical of the new century.