Isabel Sánchez-Coello Reynalte (Madrid, 1564-1612) was the daughter of Philip II's court painter Alonso Sánchez Coello. María Eugenia de Beer y Sonz was an engraver who was active in Madrid between 1640 and 1652. María Tomasa Palafox y Portocarrero (Madrid, 1780 Naples, 1835) was a Castilian noblewoman who excelled as a painter and intellectual. Gloria Melgar Sáez (Madrid, 1859 Sant Just Desvern, 1938) was a painter and composer greatly influenced by her mother, the writer Faustina Sáez de Melgar. Margarita Gil Roësset (Las Rozas de Madrid, 1908-1932) was an artist whose impossible love for the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez drove her to suicide at a very young age. Rosario de Velasco Belausteguigoitia (Madrid, 1904 Sitges, 1991) had studied with her teacher, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, great classics such as Titian and Velázquez. For ages 12 and up.

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