Antonia Bañuelos

Antonia de Bañuelos-Thorndike
Born 1856
Rome
Died 1926
Nationality Italy, France

Antonia de Bañuelos Thorndike (Marquesa de Alcedo; Rome, Italy, 1856 - 1926) was a Spanish painter, born in Rome, who spent most of her life in Paris.[1]

She was the daughter of the Earl of Bañuelos, and a disciple of Charles Joshua Chaplin.[2][3] At the Paris Exposition of 1878, several portraits by this artist attracted attention, one of them being a portrait of herself. At the Exposition of 1880, she exhibited "A Guitar Player".[4] Her works The Little Fishers and Study of a laughing baby were included in the book Women Painters of the World.[5]

References

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: C. E. C. Waters' "Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D." (1904)
  1. ↑ "Bañuelos, Antonia de (Marquesa de Alcedo)". Frick Collection. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Picón, Jacinto Octavio (1890). Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes (in Spanish) (Public domain ed.). E. Rubiños. pp. 25–.
  3. ↑ Blanco, Augusto Comas y (1890). La exposición nacional de bellas artes de Madrid 1890 (in Spanish) (Public domain ed.). estab. tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra". pp. 83–.
  4. ↑ Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domain ed.). Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 25–.
  5. ↑ Women Painters of the World on Project Gutenberg
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