# Portrait of Félix Lope de Vega [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TRISTÁN DE ESCAMILLA, Luis]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 70 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Félix Lope de Vega 1614 Oil on canvas, 66 x 70 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Lope de Vega \(also Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, 1562-1635\) was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. He was born about two years before Marlowe and Shakespeare, but outlived them both. The first Spanish dramatist to make a living as a playwright - and now considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights - Lope is said to have written over 2,200 plays, over 500 of which have survived. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [St Monica]() - [The Adoration of the Magi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()