Portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli

Portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli (c. 1600–05) in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla depicts El Greco's son, who trained as a painter and architect in his father's workshop and continued his practice after his death. Jorge Manuel inherited his father's workshop, completed unfinished commissions, and produced works in his father's style with his own collaborators. The portrait captures a young man of intelligence and artistic confidence — the son of a great painter, shaped by his father's world and prepared to carry it forward. El Greco's tenderness toward his son is visible in the portrait's warmth, which differs subtly from the more formal reserve of his portraits of professional and ecclesiastical clients.

The portrait demonstrates El Greco's characteristic approach to portraiture with the face emerging from a dark background. The warm flesh tones and the fashionable ruff collar are rendered with precision, while the young man's alert expression conveys both intelligence and filial resemblance.