Antonia de Bañuelos-Thorndike | |
Birth Date: | 1856 |
Birth Place: | Rome |
Death Date: | 1926 |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Antonia de Bañuelos Thorndike (also called Marquesa de Alcedo; 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]