Early Life and Training Maria Aurélia Martins de Souza, a pioneering Portuguese painter, was born on June 13, 1866, in Valparaíso, Chile. She was the fourth of seven children to Portuguese emigrants António Martins de Sousa and Olinda Peres. The family’s nomadic lifestyle—which included stints in Brazil and Chile—eventually led them to settle in Porto, Portugal, in 1869, when Maria was just three years old. At the age of sixteen, she…