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Rafael Salas
Portrait of Humboldt
1857
oil on canvas
On his second trip to South America in 1857, Church stayed in one of the haçiendas near Cotopaxi in Ecuador where Humboldt had stayed in 1802. While Humboldt was there, the owner of the haçienda had his portrait painted by the leading Ecuadorian artist, José Cortés de Alcocer. Fifty-five years later, Church arranged for Rafael Salas, a renowned Ecuadoran artist, to make him a copy. He brought this painting back to New York, where it hung in Church's New York studio and eventually at his home, Olana, in Hudson, New York.
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