María Eloísa Jiménez Gutiérrez (August 30, 1908 – 1990) was a Mexican painter.
Born in
León, Guanajuato
León (), officially León de Los Aldama, is the most populous city and municipal seat of the municipality of León in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. In the 2020 census, INEGI reported 1,579,803 people living in the city of León and 1,721,21 ...
, Mexico, Gutiérrez studied with
Antonio Segoviano from the time she was thirteen, She painted largely portraits until 1940, in which year she began creating
portrait miniature
A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting from Renaissance art, usually executed in gouache, Watercolor painting, watercolor, or Vitreous enamel, enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illumin ...
s; after 1950 she returned to larger format work. Her paintings have drawn comparison to those of
Eugène Isabey, and she has been called "La Miniaturista de América". Although she exhibited widely, health issues prevented her from traveling, and she remained in her native city until her death.
References
1908 births
1990 deaths
Mexican portrait painters
Portrait miniaturists
Artists from Guanajuato
People from León, Guanajuato
20th-century Mexican painters
20th-century Mexican women painters
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