 In any case, Philip's dissatisfaction ended any hopes of royal patronage El Greco may have had.Lacking the favor of the king, El Greco was obliged to remain in Toledo, where he had been received in 1577 as a great painter.According to Hortensio Félix Paravicino, a 17th-century Spanish preacher and poet, "Crete gave him life and the painter's craft, Toledo a better homeland, where through Death he began to achieve eternal life."