José Nieto Velázquez

Diego Velázquez, Portrait of a Man (possibly José Nieto), c. 1635-45. Oil on canvas, Apsley House, London.[1]
Detail of Las Meninas showing José Nieto Velázquez at the door in the background of the painting.

José Nieto Velázquez was the Queen of Spain's chamberlain and keeper of the royal tapestries. He is the figure in the doorway in Diego Velázquez's painting Las Meninas and may have been a relative of the artist. He is also reputed to be the subject of the painting Portrait of a Man (c.1635-45), now attributed to Diego Velázquez, that was rediscovered by English bookseller John Snare in 1845.[2]

The portrait of José Nieto Velázquez was the subject of a book by Observer art critic Laura Cumming in 2016 titled The vanishing man: In pursuit of Velazquez (Chatto & Windus).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Portrait of a Man. BBC Your Paintings. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 "How Velázquez gave me consolation in grief – and set me on the trail of a lost portrait", Laura Cumming, The Observer, 3 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
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