José Campeche y Jordán, is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenced the landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème of colonial Puerto Rico.
Self portrait of José Campeche, 1800
The Rescue of Don Ramón Power y Giralt [a Puerto Rican independentist forerunner] (c. 1790)
"María de los Dolores Gutiérrez del Mazo y Pérez" (ca. 1796), Brooklyn Museum.
[Spanish Governor of Puerto Rico] Ramón de Castro (1800)
Puerto Ricans, most commonly known as Boricuas, and also referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants, including those in mainland United States.
Crowd gathering on a street in Puerto Rico in 1939, photographed by Robert Yarnall Richie
Two men sit by the side of a road with the ocean behind them in Puerto Rico.
José Campeche is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist.
"A Puerto Rican family lives here" sign on a wall in San Juan