If you ask, "What good did she do?" The answer is, "Not much.” Her attitude seemed to be what could today be called Trumpian - “Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.” to paraphrase a famous quote in Amrican history. Her English-language Wikipedia article is here. The article leads off with this 1765 Mengs portrait, like most Wikipedia articles, but the Spanish-language page leads with this 1789 Goya portrait.
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
Maria Francisca Pignatelli and Gonzaga, Duchess of Medinaceli by Anton Raphael Mengs (location unknown to gogm)
ca. 1765 Maria Luisa of Parma, Princesa de Asturias by Anton Rafael Mengs (Colección Real)
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