O CORDEIRO PASCAL (1660-70)
Josefa de Ayala y Cabrera (1630 – 1684)
Born in Seville in 1630, and daughter of also painter
Abílio de Mattos e Silva, she came to Portugal as a young child.
She later was part of a novitiate in Coimbra, where she completed
her first known work – the representation of Saint Catherine (1646).
Because she didn’t particularly like the life in the convent,
Josefa settled in Óbidos and begun an intense activity as a painter,
first collaborating with her father and, afterwards, by herself,
obtaining great national and international prestige.
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