# Retrato de caballero

- By: José Campeche y Jordán (born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809)
- Date: ca. 1805-1809
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.3 x 15.9 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=35435)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/481446f545713b18ab463ba74a8b81a8.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's paintings usually have a highly finished, almost glassy surface, but this portrait retains the visible brushstrokes used to model the sitters features. Despite his African ancestry, Campeche did not often paint African subjects. Most of his sitters, including this horseman, were fair-skinned Europeans. (Andrew Connors, José Campeche's San Juan Nepomuceno, American Art, Summer 1997)