
- Name
- José Campeche y Jordán
- Also Known as
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José CampecheJose Campeche y Jordan
- Born
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Died
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809
- Nationalities
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American
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José Campeche was the most significant Puerto Rican painter of portraits and religious imagery. Of Afro-Caribbean ancestry, he was the son of a slave who purchased his freedom. Although primarily self-taught, Campeche was influenced by the exiled Spanish court painter Luis Paret y Alcázar, who lived in Puerto Rico from 1775 through 1778.
Jonathan Yorba Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2001)