This panel forms part of the Congress A Century's Worth of Shooting Stars, held on 22, 23 and 24 February 2021. Organised by the Museo del Prado, the Congress aims to review the role played by women within the various artistic structures from the advent of the constitutional regime in the early nineteenth century to the end of the reign of Alfonso XIII, in the early decades of the twentieth century, through a multifaceted perspective capable of encompassing their diverse positions. Invited by men to participate in a system not designed for them—in which women artists were regarded as remarkable exceptions—women shone briefly, only to fade thereafter from the narrative that the bourgeoisie shaped to suit its own worldview, and which we have conventionally, and rather neutrally, termed the History of Art.

Panel III: Individual cases of women artists active in nineteenth-century Spain across the disciplines represented in the Museum’s collections: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography and the decorative arts.

Programme:

00:00 Introduction

00:37 Emilia Carmena. Asunción Cardona. Subdirectorate-General for Fine Arts, Community of Madrid.

23:30 Vicenta Mormin: a dressmaker for three queens (1816–1841). Sandra Antúnez. PhD candidate, Autonomous University of Madrid.

37:30 Adelaida Crooke, Sabina Muchart Collobni and Pauline Buxo: three forgotten Spanish photographers. María Jesús Aparicio. CEU San Pablo University, Madrid, and Reyes Utrera. Patrimonio Nacional.

01:07:07 Carlota Rosales, an unknown painter. Carmen de Armiñán. PhD in Art History and independent researcher.

01:20:23 The “spirited and engaging” Jane Clifford: from aeronaut’s companion to enterprising photographer. Rachel Bullough. CEU San Pablo University, Madrid.

01:37:03 Spanish miniaturists: from the family workshop to academies and domestic schools. Carmen Espinosa. Lázaro Galdiano Museum.

02:13:10 Elena Brockmann, a woman painting History. Laura Fernández de la Fuente. Art historian and independent researcher.

02:30:57 From her palette and brush: conceptualisation and artistic experimentation in the work of Antonia Rodríguez (1835–1868). María del Castillo García Romero. University of Seville.

02:46:32 A brilliant shooting star: new insights into the artist Fernanda Francés (Valencia, 1862–Madrid, 1939). María José López Terrada. University of Valencia.

03:05:07 Alejandrina Alba (1837–c. 1910): from “public prostitute” to photographer between husbands. Marta López Beriso. Historian.

03:25:44 The professionalisation of women as artists through miniature painting: the case of Francisca Meléndez. Alicia Lozano. Instituto Moll, Centre for Research into Flemish Painting.

03:39:41 María Rodrigo Bellido: a composer silenced by the Spanish press of the early twentieth century. Lucía Magán. PhD candidate, University of Salamanca.

03:50:40 A painter forgotten by History: María Galán Carvajal. Iván Mallada. University of Oviedo.

04:05:35 A painter to be discovered: Asunción de Amat Ciscar. Luis Alberto Pérez Velarde.

04:22:49 The Symbolist painter Irene Narezo Dragone and her fleeting stardom. Isabel Rodrigo. University of Castilla–La Mancha.

04:43:34 Beautiful, distinguished and charming: women painters in nineteenth-century Granada. María Dolores Santos. University of Granada

05:02:38 María Roesset Velasco, precursor of a lineage of women artists. Montserrat Siso. Researcher, PEMS20 Research Group, National Distance Education University.

05:16:42 Between France and Spain: the artistic career of Marguerite Arosa (1854–1903). Andrea Van Houtven. TAI School of the Arts, Madrid.