Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"Portrait of Dolores Hoyos," Hermenegildo Bustos, 1884.</p><p>Mexican artist José Hermenegildo de la Luz Bustos Hernández (1832-1907) was known mostly for his portraits, but also did a number of religious paintings and still lifes.</p><p>He saw a lot of turbulence in his early life, including a cholera epidemic and the founding of the Mexican nation. At various times he worked as a tinsmith, tailor, carpenter, and mason, and kept an orchard. He had many interests in thing like history and astronomy, and art. He had a little formal art training but seems to have been largely self-educated, painting portraits of the members of prominent families in his area. He even did a portrait of Benito Juarez, now lost. (Check your attic!) And he always modestly indicated himself as "amateur painter" when signing his work.</p><p>After his death and the Mexican Revolution, his work was reassessed as a native son of Mexico, and received greater notice and acclaim. This portrait of a well-to-do young lady is probably his most popular work.</p><p>From the Museo Blaisten, Ciudad de Mexico.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MexicanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HermenegildoBustos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HermenegildoBustos</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Realism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomenInArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PortraitMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PortraitMonday</span></a>.</p>