page_title: Félix Castello
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Félix Castello / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Español: Retrato imaginario de Teodorico I († 451), rey de los Visigodos e hijo ilegítimo del rey Alarico I.
context_page_description: Félix Castello or Castelo was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
context_section_description: He was born and died in Madrid. His father, Fabrizio Castello, was a painter for King Phillip II of Spain in El Escorial, the palace of Alba de Tormes, and the Palacio de Pardo. His mother died in childbirth in 1608. Felix's grandfather was the painter Giovanni Battista Castello (known as  Il Bergamasco). He later trained with Vincenzo Carducci and Bartolomeo Carducci. In December 1615 he married Catherine de Argüello. Two years later he received the title of Painter to the King which was made vacant on the death of his father,
caption: Felix Castello, Theodoric, King of the Goths, 1635.
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