Antonia Bañuelos

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]

Antonia de Bañuelos-Thorndike
Born1856
Rome
Died1926
NationalityItaly, France

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.

The Little Fishers

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]


Study of a laughing baby

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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