# Isabel O'Daly

- By: José Campeche y Jordán (born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809)
- Date: 1808
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (25.2 x 19.1 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=35434)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/041605f6a401031b006a385e05a6a320.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

José Campeche made this portrait of Isabel O'Daly (1772-1840) when she was thirty-six years old. Isabel was the daughter of Thomas O'Daly, an Irish engineer who came to San Juan in 1765 to complete the massive fortifications of the city. Campeche had a gift for painting the effects of light and shadow, and his naturalistic modeling captured the indentation above Isabel's upper lip and the prominence of her chin.