Juan Rodríguez Juárez

Juan Rodríguez Juárez was an artist in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. He was a member of a Spanish family long noted for their accomplishments in the world of painting. His brother was Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez, who was like himself, an established painter in New Spain. He was the son of Antonio Rodríguez, a notable Spanish painter. His maternal grandfather José Juárez and maternal great great grandfather Luis Juárez were also notable painters in Spanish history and prominent in the Baroque era.
As with most artists in New Spain during the late Baroque period, Juan Rodríguez Juárez produced religious art. He also followed the trend of painting portraits of high officials, such as Viceroy Linares and the local nobility. These works followed European models, with symbols of rank and titles either displayed unattached in the outer portions or worked into another element of the paintings such as curtains. Rodríguez Juárez painted "an extraordinary self-portrait, symptomatic of the changing role of the artist in the colony in the eighteenth century."
A set of early casta paintings is attributed to him; they are in a private collection at Breamore House, Hampshire, England.