Granada Cabezudo

She was a painter of Spanish origin who settled in the Philippines in 1847 where her father Ramón Cabezudo was stationed as a military officer. She was one of the seven children of the Cabezudo Cristóval couple. They all returned to the Iberian Peninsula between 1897 and 1899. According to the 1900 Madrid census, all the siblings were born in Manila between 1859 and 1870. The information regarding Granda Cabezudo indicates that she was born on June 17, 1865, that she was a ‘widow”, that she received a pension of 1,000 pesetas, and that her profession was ‘that of her sex’.
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She belonged to the Filipino school that cultivated costumbrista themes, especially indigenous ones. She carried out her artistic studies in the workshop of the painter Agustín Sáez who was director of the Academy of Drawing and Painting of Manila, an institution that did not admit women at that time, so she was trained in a private painting studio. In 1887 she presented a painting titled "Una mestiza" to the Philippines General Exposition held in Madrid. (Balbás Ibáñez, S., Encyclopedia of the Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation, 2006, T. II, p. 586).