| The artist José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza immigrated from
Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to New Orleans around 1782.
Already an accomplished artist, Salazar received numerous portrait
commissions from prominent families and community leaders of Spanish
Colonial Louisiana. The impressive group portrait of “Don Antonio
Mendez and His Family” has the upright postures, delicate handling of
the lace and inclusion of a bird and basket of berries that are
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