Concepción (Luis Lármig) Figuera Martínez y Güertero

Concepción Figuera Martínez y Güertero used the pseudonym Luis Lármig to sign her works. She was a student of the painter Alejo Vera and participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibition of 1887 with "Estudio del natural," for which she received a third-class medal. In 1896, she contributed to the Spanish Painting Exhibition in Stockholm and in 1897 again participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Spain, where she displayed the paintings "Meditación," "Mater Dolorosa," and "Retrato del R. Padre Lerchundi," receiving an honorary mention. In 1898, she exhibited two paintings at the Spanish art exhibition held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico. Under the name Concepción Figuera Larmig, she participated in events such as the Artistic Exhibition for the benefit of soldiers wounded in Cuba and the Philippines in 1897 and held a show in her own studio in 1905 to present the "Portrait of the Princess of Asturias," commissioned by Infanta Isabel. (D. F. M., Encyclopedia of the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation, 2006).