Doña María Juana Hurtado de Mendoza (died 1818) was a

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painter. Hurtado de Mendoza, a member of the Spanish nobility was elected an ''academica de mérito'' to the

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in 1791. She exhibited eight pastels after

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and also a pencil drawing of

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. It appears that she was the sister of Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza and Doña María de Loreto Hurtado de Mendoza, through whom she was the sister-in-law of violinist Francisco Balcarén y Gamot y Cristóbal de Ronda. The three were descended from an old noble family of

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. Hurtado de Mendoza died in

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at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

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