Marisa Roësset Velasco (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Marisa Luisa Roësset y Velasco; March 6, 1904 – November 18, 1976) was a Spanish figurative painter, and teacher. She worked on portraits, genre scenes, and religious scenes; and founded a painting school in Madrid that operated for 30 years.

Life and career

Marisa Roësset Velasco was born on March 6, 1904, in Madrid, to father Eugenio Julio Roësset Mosquera. She was born into a wealthy Madrid family of artists and writers. Her aunt was painter María Roësset Mosquera, whom she studied painting under in early life. Roësset Velasco attended

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal aca ...

in Madrid, and studied under teachers

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, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, and . She attended art school classes alongside

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, and Victorina Durán. She became known as a painter through her exhibitions at the , despite not holding a membership. In the 1930s, Roësset Velasco opened a painting school in Madrid, that was active for 30 years.

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had been one of her students. Roësset Velasco discreetly had a lesbian relationship with the teacher at the Madrid Singing School,

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, with whom she lived and to whom she left her pictorial work upon her death. Roësset Velasco died of cancer on November 18, 1976, in Madrid.

Exhibitions

* 1924, Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, group exhibition, Madrid, Spain *

1929 Barcelona International Exposition The 1929 Barcelona International Exposition (also 1929 Barcelona Universal Exposition, or Expo 1929, officially in Spanish language, Spanish: ''Exposición Internacional de Barcelona 1929'') was the second World's fair, World Fair to be held in ...

, Barcelona, Spain * 1931,

Círculo de Bellas Artes The Círculo de Bellas Artes is a private, non-profit, cultural organization that was founded in 1880. Its building, located in Madrid, Spain, was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural'' in 1981. The CBA is a major multidisciplinary centre with one ...

, Madrid, Spain * 1941, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

References

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