Alicia Iturrioz
Alicia Iturrioz Arrizabalaga (31 January 1927 – 9 September 2021) was a Spanish painter and author. She is known for her portraits, she was a portraitist for the Spanish royal family and the European aristocracy.
Also recorded as Alicia Iturrioz Arrizabalaga
Alicia Iturrioz

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- Name
- Alicia Iturrioz
- Born
- 31 January 1927
- Birthplace
- Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
- Died
- 9 September 2021
- Place of death
- San Sebastián, Spain
- Education
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Occupation
- painter, author
- Spouse
- Ricardo Macarrón
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- portrait
- Languages
- Spanish
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• Name — Alicia Iturrioz • Born — 31 January 1927 • Birthplace — Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain • Died — 9 September 2021 • Place of death — San Sebastián, Spain • Education — Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando • Occupation — painter, author • Spouse — Ricardo Macarrón • Children — 2
Biography
Biography
Alicia Iturrioz Arrizabalaga was born 31 January 1927 in Eibar in Gipuzkoa, Spain. She was talented at making art as a child, and she went on to attend the Madrid Academy of Art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1944. She met her future husband in college, Ricardo Macarrón. Together they had two daughters, and she stopped painting for 20 years to raise her children. Iturrioz published a memoir after her husband died, Mi Vida con Ricardo Macarrón (2014), which recounted the couple's experiences. When she returned to painting after raising children she continued with portraits, but added landscape and still life painting. Iturrioz died on 9 September 2021 in San Sebastián, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. Her work is found in public museum collections including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and the Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga. Queen Elizabeth II of England had one of her paintings of her corgi dog in her collection.
Identity
Identity
Alicia Iturrioz is classed in the genre portrait painting. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as a citizen of Spain.
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1927
Alicia Iturrioz was born on 31 January 1927.
2021
Alicia Iturrioz died on 8 September 2021.
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Eibar.
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San Sebastián.
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- 1.Fallece la pintora Alicia Iturrioz a los 94 años. Donostitik. 2021-09-09.
- 2.Fallece Alicia Iturrioz, la artista a la sombra del retratista de la aristocracia. Naiz: (Bilbao). 2021-09-09.
- 3.Lorenzo, Clara G. Muere la pintora Alicia Iturrioz a los 94 años. La Nueva España. 2021-09-09.
- 4.Marquis Who's Who. Who's Who in the World. 590. 1970. 978-0-8379-1101-4.
- 5.Condé Nast. "Isabel II fue encantadora. Me pidió que dibujara a su corgi": Alicia Iturrioz, la pintora española que estuvo con la reina en Buckingham. Vanity Fair España. 2019-12-16.
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Identity and origins. Her recorded language was Spanish. She married Ricardo Macarrón.
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