Los retratos de los fundadores del Colegio de las Vizcaínas en México

Abstract

In spite of the fact that the foundation of the School of Bizkaian women in Mexico was the work of a considerable amount of people, Francisco de Echeveste, Manuel Aldaco and Ambrosio de Meave are the people who invested the most effort. Their portraits, which were painted as a way of commemorating their figures, are to be found in the art collection of this educational institution. Copies were made of two of them, which were to be sent to the Basque Country. Together with these paintings, there is the presence in Gipuzkoa of other objects sent by them as a gesture of prodigality towards their people: pieces of silver smithery, fabrics or paintings that will decorate the parishes of the towns and villages in which they were born.