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Identify the Spanish artist who became a court painter and created a work of art known as Las Meninas, which portrayed the daughter of the royal family.

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Diego Velazquez is the artist
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Diego Velázquez

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Las Meninas is an oil painting by Spanish painter painted in 1656. This painting hangs in the Spanish national art museum Madrid, Spain. This painting shows scenes behind the Spanish court, the centre attention of this painting is the Infanta Margarita stands in the centre, she is accompanied by her Meninas (ladies-in-waiting), two dwarfs, a dog, a mirror that shows the upper bodies of the king and queen also the painter himself in this painting.

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