Which Spanish Baroque painter painted 'The Rokeby Venus'?

Diego Velázquez painted The Rokeby Venus, the celebrated Spanish Baroque image of Venus reclining before a mirror.

Velázquez probably completed the painting between 1647 and 1651, likely during or after his second journey to Italy. It is now in London’s National Gallery and is also known as The Toilet of Venus or Venus at Her Mirror. The mirror’s strange reflection, which seems to show Venus looking toward the viewer rather than clearly at herself, is often discussed as an example of the “Venus effect.”

The painting is especially important because it is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Such subjects were exceptionally rare in seventeenth-century Spain, where religious authorities closely monitored images of nudity. Its composition draws on earlier Italian models, including Titian’s Venus of Urbino, but Velázquez made the figure face away from the viewer.

A common mix-up is confusing its title with its provenance: it was called the Rokeby Venus after hanging at Rokeby Park in Yorkshire. The painting entered the National Gallery in 1906.