Jose Campeche and Francisco Oller: painting Puerto Rico.(Biography)

The Magazine Antiques | November 1, 2006| | Copyright

What Van Dyck, Velazquez, and Sargent were to the aristocracy of their respective ages and countries, Jose Campeche was to the affluent Puerto Ricans of his era: the preferred portraitist of the elite who ruled the island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The other side of his output was religious paintings, commissioned by private patrons as well as for churches, chapels, and the Cathedral of San Juan in Puerto Rico and even for cathedrals in Caracas and Havana. That Campeche never left Puerto Rico and barely left the then-walled city of San Juan makes his ...

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