Juan Rodríguez Juárez

[2] 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.

[3] Rodríguez Juárez painted "an extraordinary self-portrait, symptomatic of the changing role of the artist in the colony in the eighteenth century.

"[4] A set of early casta paintings (c. 1715) is attributed to him; they are in a private collection at Breamore House, Hampshire, England.

From Negro and India, Lobo ("wolf"); From Indio and Loba produce a crinkly haired (grifo) "Hold-Yourself-In-Midair" (tente en el air); From Lobo and India produce a Torna atrás ("throw back"); From Mestizo and India produce a Coyote; Mexican Indians; Otomí Indians en route to the fair; Barbarian Indians (Indios Bárbaros).