Portrait of Remedios Lopez Cuenco by Cecilia Brainard

 

I made this por­trait using the pho­to of my great-grand­moth­er Reme­dios Lopez Cuen­co as ref­er­ence.  Reme­dios was the moth­er of my grand­fa­ther (Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co, who was the father of my moth­er Con­cep­cion Cuen­co Manguer­ra.

Reme­dios was a force and not­ed in Philip­pine his­to­ry as the first woman pub­lish­er. She had inspired me to write my third nov­el, The News­pa­per Wid­ow.  Infor­ma­tion here:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2017/12/from-cebu-to-ubec-inspiration-for.html

Read also:

Por­trait of Filom­e­na Alesna Cuen­co by Cecil­ia Brainard
Remem­brance of Things Awry, the Fam­i­lies of Old Cebu
How My Great Grand­moth­er Reme­dios Lopez Cuen­co Died
Excerpt from Arch­bish­op Jose Maria Cuen­co’s Auto­bi­og­ra­phy
Four Gen­er­a­tions of Fil­ip­ina Women — from Jua­na Lopez to Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard
Roots — Pic­tures of my Moth­er and More
More re Jua­na Lopez and Fam­i­ly

Tags: Cuen­co, Cebu, Philip­pines, pol­i­tics, soci­ety, Jua­na Lopez, Reme­dios Lopez, Mar­i­ano Jesus Cuen­co