Teresa Madasú y Celestino

She was a painter, drawer, and lithographer. She was the daughter of Madasú y Tomás’, a public servant who was assigned to Linares, where Teresa was educated and made her first drawings. In 1871, Mr. Madasú lost his job, and the family moved to Madrid, where Teresa and her three sisters started sewing to help with the fragile family economy. In 1873, she received her first commission as a drawer for a work on artistic antiquities edited by José Gil Dorregaray.
When a public drawing class for young ladies opened at the Conservatory of Arts under the direction of Professor Don José Vallejo, Teresa attended and created a series of twenty-two drawings, winning various awards as well as their publication by the Ministry of Development. This encouraged her to enroll in the Special School of Painting in Madrid, while she continued to make copies of objects from the Archaeological Museum in Madrid to illustrate different publications such as La Ilustración Católica (May 5, 1878), where her drawing of the sculpture "The Beggar Lazarus" by Alcoverro was published.
She learned lithography and began copying fossils, which were published by the Geological Map Commission. She received a grant from the Ministry of Development and was awarded in various exhibitions where she presented her drawings, watercolors, and lithographs.
Around 1876, she married the treasury official Joaquín Avellaneda y Rico, and in 1880 she completed her studies at the Academy. She continued collaborating on various publications until 1888 when she was appointed teacher of "Drawing applied to the arts and industry" at the newly created Association for the education of women. On December 30, 1897, the newspaper "La Correspondencia de España" reported on the opening of the course of the Association where Teresa is listed as a painting teacher. It also reported that she won the first prize at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid, where she died in 1917.
Information extracted from:
Eugenio Maffei “Trabajos geológicos. La señorita doña Teresa Madasú” en El Imparcial, 8 junio 1874.
Fernando Alcolea, Mujeres Pintoras: http://wm1640482.web-maker.es/Mujeres-pintoras/Teresa-Madasu/
Concha Díaz, Cuaderno de Sofonisba:
http://cuadernodesofonisba.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Teresa%20Madas%C3%BA