Josefa de Óbidos

Nativity of Jesus (1669) by Josefa de Óbidos

Josefa de Óbidos (c. 1630 – 22 July 1684) was a Portuguese painter. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira. She was born in Seville, in Spain, to a Portuguese father and a Spanish mother, but moved to her father's country when she was a child. She made all her work in Portugal. She was one of the few Baroque female painters. There are around 150 works attributed to her.[1]

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