NEW HAVEN, CT.- Based on the research of John Marciari, currently Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art and formerly the Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, the seventeenth-century Spanish painting portraying the Education of the Virgin in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery has been reattributed to Diego Velazquez. The painting was donated to the Gallery in 1925 by Henry Hotchkiss Townshend, b.a. 1897, ll.b. 1901, and Raynham Townshend, md, b.s. 1900s. It is thought to have been in the Townsend family for at least 40 years and was in poor condition when it arrived at the Gallery. Prior to the current attribution, the painting was considered to be by an unknown artist from Seville, Spain. The work is now believed to have been painted by Velazquez in Seville around 1617, making it one of the artist’