"His*
father was a barber and surgeon" [wikipedia] - an interesting order...
[*of Murillo, son of Gaspar Esteban and María Pérez Murillo. He may have been born in Seville or in Pilas, a smaller Andalusian town; baptized in Seville in 1618, the youngest son in a family of fourteen.** ]
**FOURTEEN! Makes you think: how keen are we to procreate?
(actually, it sounds like a useful line for the sort of no-nonsense banter that I'm promoting these days: Do you come here often?.... How keen are we to procreate?.... Oh, no - nothing personal, I was just thinking of Murillo's family.)
