Portrait Group with the Artist’s Father and Siblings: Amilcare Anguissola, Minerva, and Astrubale, by Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1559, oil on canvas, held in the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.

Sofonisba Anguissola often painted her family, this painting is of her father and younger siblings. The father embraces his son presenting him to the audience, while his daughter looks over at him in the corner unacknowledged. The youngest daughter is holding a bouquet of flowers indicating that women’s purpose is to be beautiful just as flowers she holds. All individuals are wearing extravagant clothing, the youngest daughter costume ties in the red her brother is wearing and the blue from the background. The left corner of the painting is unfinished because the artist suddenly moved because King Philip II of Spain gave her a position to be the lady in waiting for the new queen. Anguissola worked for the Spanish court for twenty years as a drawing teacher and made portraits for the royal family.