Lola Mora

Dolores Candelaria Mora Vega known professionally as Lola Mora, was a sculptor born in El Tala, Salta Province in Argentina. She is known today as a rebel and a pioneer of women in her artistic field.

Mora was the daughter of Romualdo Alejandro Mora, a prosperous landowner of Tucumn Province and Regina Vega. She was the third born of seven children, three boys and four girls. Her parents decided that the girls will have too, the best education possible. At seven years of age, circa 1874, she was a boarding school pupil at Colegio Sarmiento de Tucumn Province. In 1885, within two days both her parents died. Her older sister Paula Mora Vega married the engineer Guillermo Rucker, and together took care of the orphans.

Source: Wikipedia