Do you have any information about this frame? I’m quite curious as to who made it.
Unfortunately, we do not know the name of the craftsman who produced the frame. It is very beautiful.
The arrows in the quiver are almost certainly an allusion to cupid's bow and love, as this portrait was commissioned on the occasion of the sitter's marriage!
It is really gorgeous! Thank you so much for all of your help.
Can you tell me more about her?
Doña María de los Dolores Gutiérrez del Mazo y Pérez, painted here by José Campeche, was born in Spain but moved to Puerto Rico, then a Spanish colony, when she was 15 years old.
At 21 she was married to Don Benito Pérez, and this painting was created to commemorate the occasion. The letters on her desk say the names of both her and her husband, who would later become viceroy of New Granada.
New Granada, at the time, was a large territory that included parts of modern Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Awesome, thanks!
What can you tell me about the painter?
The painter was known as the most gifted and prized portraitist in Puerto Rico at the time. He is known for painting images of the wealthy in their homes especially in San Juan. Campeche was mostly self taught, but also learned from Luis Paret y Alcázar, a Spanish court painter who was exiled to Puerto Rico in the late 1770s.