Bárbara María Hueva (1733–1772)[2] was a Spanish painter.

Bárbara María Hueva
Born1733[1]
Died1772 (aged 38–39)
NationalitySpanish
EducationReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Known forPainting

Life and work

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Bárbara María Hueva was born in 1733 in Madrid. At the age of 19, in 1752, she was elected to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando at its first meeting.[3] She was the first woman to obtain admittance and earned the first diploma from the academy.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Shearjashub Spooner (1880). Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art. A.W. Lovering. pp. 210–211.
  2. ^ Hueva, Bárbara María in Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary, at the Frick Collection
  3. ^ Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1848). Annals of the Artists of Spain. J. Ollivier. pp. 1233.