Painting of Christopher Columbus. The painting Virgen de los Navegantes (in the Sala de los Almirantes, Royal Alcazar, Seville). A painting by Alejo Fernández between 1531 and 1536. It is the only state sponsored portrait of the First Admiral of the Indias called Don Cristoval Colon known today as Christopher Columbus in English.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejo_Fern%C3%A1ndez" class="extiw" title="en:Alejo Fernández">Alejo Fernández</a> (1475-1545)
1531–36<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.museodelprado.es/enciclopedia/enciclopedia-on-line/voz/fernandez-alejo/">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://personal.us.es/alporu/histsevilla/alejo_fernandez.htm#virgen">[2]</a>
Photo by historian Manuel Rosa.