Lisbon and Cintra
stronghold of the Templars. The work of a famous woman painter of the seventeenth century is seen in the churches of Obidos. Her name was Josepha d'Ayala, but she is better known as Josepha d'Obidos, for she lived in the plain close by in the Domaine da Capelleira. Though she painted many religious subjects, it was through her portraits she became renowned. After discovering these details it was interesting to read in Murphy of a portrait he admired at Alcobaça painted by a lady named Josepha, worth all the other pictures he saw there.
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