Luisa Roldán
Artist
Biography
Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), known as La Roldana, was a Spanish Baroque sculptor and the earliest documented woman sculptor in Spain. Daughter of the sculptor Pedro Roldán, she became Court Sculptor to King Charles II, yet struggled financially and died poor; on the day of her death she was named Academician of Merit by the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.