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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Francisco Pacheco c. 1620 Prado |
Francisco Pacheco was an important teacher of Diego Velázquez, the future court painter to Philip IV of Spain. Francisco Pacheco was also the father-in-law of Velázquez, who married Pacheco's daughter in 1618. The identity of the sitter in the portrait above is firmly established as Francisco Pacheco. The sitter in the portrait below is not documented, but curators at the Prado are inclined to credit the long-standing belief that this is Juana Pacheco, the painter's wife. A range of Velázquez portraits follows, a few made for his own circle, many others for the Court.
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| Diego Velázquez A Sybil c. 1632 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of a man (possibly Juan Velázquez, the painter's brother) c. 1623 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of a man (possibly a self-portrait) c. 1630-35 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Diego Velázquez Equestrian Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares 1636 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Mariana de Austria, Queen of Spain 1652 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria in Hunting Dress 1633 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Antonia de Ipeñarrieta y Galdós & her son Luis 1631 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of the court buffoon known as Pablo de Valladolid c. 1635 Prado |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of the court buffoon called El Primo c. 1636-38 Prado |
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| Jacques-Etienne Pannier Posthumous portrait of Velázquez 1848 etching Prado |
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| Léon-Joseph Bonnat after Velázquez Self-portrait 1898 etching Prado |
I am grateful for the beautiful reproductions made available by Museo del Prado.