sons, as well as by religious bodies, and was even
sent to Malaga to superintend improvements in the cathedral there. But his
temper led him into so many broils that at length, in 1659, the chapter of
Granada deprived him of his office. He went to the king with his
complaints, and was again made a canon; but he was so angry that he never
would use his brush or his chisel in the service of the Cathedral of
Granada.

His life was now devoted to charity and good works. He gave away all his
money as soon as he received it. When his purse was empty he would go into
a shop, and beg a pencil and paper, and sketching a head or other design
would mark the price on it, and give it to a beggar with directions for
finding a purchaser for it. After his death large numbers of these charity
works were collected.

One of his strong characteristics was hatred of the Jews. He would cross
the street, in order not to meet one of them, and would throw away a
garment that had brushed against one of the race. One day he went home,
and found his housekeeper bargaining with a Jew; he chased him away with
great fury, sent the woman off to be purified, repaved the spot where the
Jew had stood, and gave the shoes in which he had chased him to a servant.
When about to die Cano would not receive the sacrament from the priest who
was present, because he had communicated with Jews, and when a rude
crucifix was held before him he pushed it away. When he was reproved for
this he said: "Vex me not with this thing; but give me a simple cross that
I may adore it, both as it is, and as I can figure it in my mind." When
this was done, it is said that he died in a most edifying manner.

Very few of Cano's architectural works remain; a few drawings of this sort
are in the Louvre which are simple and elegant in style. The finest
carving by him is a small figure of the Virgin, now in the Cathedral of
Granada. Eight of his pictures are in the Queen of Spain's gallery at
Madrid, and the Church of Getafe, the Cathedral of Granada and that of
Malaga have his works. A beautiful madonna, which was one of his latest
works, is in the chapel of the Cathedral of Valencia, and is lighted by
votive tapers only. His pictures are rare out of Spain. One of his
portraits is in the Louvre. Other works are in Berlin, Dresden, Munich,
and the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

The last Spanish painter of whom I shall speak belongs to a much later
period. FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES (17