Josefa of Ayala1630-1684,Portuguese painter and engraver. She was the daughter of the Portuguese painter Baltazar Gomes Figueira (1597-1674) and a Spanish lady, Doea Catarina de Ayala y Cabrera. After the restoration of the Portuguese monarchy in 1640 the family moved to Coimbra. Here Josefa began her apprenticeship under her father, a painter of landscapes, still-lifes and religious works, who in 1644 painted the retable of Nossa Senhora da Graea, Coimbra, in the naturalist-tenebrist style he had learnt in Seville in the circles of Juan del Castillo, |
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The martimonio mistico of Holy Catalina mk16 6
1647
I Wave on copper
27x37cm National Museum of
Old Art Lisbon Painting ID:: 42043
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Josefa of Ayala The martimonio mistico of Holy Catalina mk16 6
1647
I Wave on copper
27x37cm National Museum of
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