spanishbaroqueart:Frans LuycxPortrait of the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, Queen of Hungary; c. 1635M
spanishbaroqueart:Frans LuycxPortrait of the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, Queen of Hungary; c. 1635Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain (P01272)Although it is nowadays knownto be a painting by Luycx, a Flemish artist who became the leading portrait painter at the imperial court of Emperor Ferdinand III in Vienna, this portrait of the Queen of Hungary sent to the Royal Collections of her brother the King Philip IV of Spain in the Buen Retiro Palace, was considered and listed for centuries in many inventories to be by the hand of Diego Velázquez, such was the influence of the portraiture style of the Spanish royal painter.Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 1606 – 13 May 1646), daughter of King Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria, was by birth Infanta of Spain and by marriage Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (Tenure: 1637–1646) as the wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. (Read more) -- source link