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This paper deals with the artistic production of Joaquin Cuadras Sagarra, one of the most important representatives of painting from Santiago de Cuba during the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout its known creation it is addressed, but fundamentally values its ranks as one of the first and Cuban genre painters. The collection and study of bibliographic material on Joaquín Cuadras was chosen as a tool for analysis, and his existing work was also located in the Museo Emilio Bacardí in Santiago de Cuba, in the National Museum of Fine Arts in our country, in other foreign collections, As well as in photographic reproductions, to obtain an integral panorama of its artistic production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the artist Baldomera Fuentes Segura from Santiago de Cuba, today recognized as the first Cuban painter. Her figure as a creator is addressed in a social, cultural and personal context which makes it an exceptional woman of the nineteenth century in Santiago de Cuba. Her miniatures, making in waterpaintig on ivory and an oil painting on canvas, religious are valued. They are preserved in the Emilio Bacardi Moreau Museum of this city, as part of a moment of aesthetic transition occurred between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Latin America, when the neoclassic was the principal style on the fine arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]