Jose Maria Estrada
Legendary Artist
Painting
Artworks
In Collections
Jose Maria Estrada was one of the most distinctive portrait painters of the 19th century Mexico. He was born in Guadalajara and contributed immensely in the development of regional painting. His career is particularly important because he stood between the older traditions of colonial Mexican painting and the increasingly secular, regional and socially representative art of independent Mexico. Although his surviving works are predominantly portraits, they provide valuable visual evidence of the appearance, clothing, social aspirations and domestic culture of 19th century Jalisco.