Maria de Abarca

María de Abarca, active in Madrid in the mid-seventeenth century, was a Spanish Baroque painter who specialized in portraiture painting, practicing by hobby and with remarkable success. José García Hidalgo, who in his Principles to practice the most noble and real art of painting (Madrid, 1691), transmitted the news, later collected by Ceán Bermúdez in the Historical Dictionary of the most illustrious professors of the Fine Arts in Spain.

Among the women artists of the XVII century Spanish, with figures as relevant as La Roldana or Josefa de Obidos, Maria de Abarca is somewhat singular figure because his practice of painting takes place outside the family workshops in which Luisa de Valdés, daughter of Juan de Valdés Leal, Francisca Palomino and Velasco, sister of Antonio Palomino, or Andrea and Claudia, daughters of Pedro de Mena, were formed, among many others. > Notes Bibliography consulted

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