""Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez the most admired?perhaps the greatest?European painter who ever lived possessed a miraculous gift for conveying a sense of truth. He gave the best of his talents to painting portraits which capture the appearance of reality through the seemingly effortless handling of sensuous paint. Lets have an insight into the nineteenth-century paintings that had made an enormous impact upon artists and why to the present day Vel?zquez is remembered as the painter''s painter.""