Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682), After - Santo Tomás de Villanueva

The painting is an oil on canvas, an old copy or reproduction in the classical style, specifically of the famous work *Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms*, painted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo around 1668.
It depicts Saint Thomas of Villanova (Archbishop of Valencia), dressed in his clerical robes and a bishop’s mitre, giving alms to the beggars and poor people kneeling before him.
Given the characteristics of the support, the paint’s craquelure, and the gilded wooden frame, this is a workshop copy or a copy by a follower (dating from the late eighteenth or nineteenth century), inspired by the original held at the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville.