In the process of reclassifying many works, Wethey

proposed that the

workshop produced many more pieces than had been supposed by earlier
scholars. Thus, although he assigned only twenty-four images of Francis to
El Greco, he maintained over one hundred pictures of this saint were executed
by his workshop or followers.3 The preserved documentation about
El Grecos workshop is fragmentary, and, thus, it is impossible to be precise
about the scope of its production. Nevertheless, it is clear that his workshop
was relatively small in comparison both with the shops for the production
of icons in his native Candia, in which he had been trained, and with
the studios of major Venetian artists, whose manner of painting he successfully
sought to imitate.4 In 1597, the artists son, Jorge Manuel, was first
recorded as a painter in the workshop, and he became a full partner in his
fathers business in 1603.5