Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-Villamil Attributed to follower of Édouard Pingret (French, 1788-1875). Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-Villamil, ca. 1865. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas, oval: 26 1/4 x 22 7/8 in. ( x cm). In his full-length equestrian portrait, Don Manuel commemorated one of his greatest achievements, the completion of the aqueduct of Tepotzotlán (more commonly known as the Arcos de Sitio) outside Mexico City. Born into one of Mexico’s leading Creole families, he had renounced several ancestral titles and associated properties by the time he assumed t
Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-Villamil Attributed to follower of Édouard Pingret (French, 1788-1875). Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-Villamil, ca. 1865. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas, oval: 26 1/4 x 22 7/8 in. ( x cm). In his full-length equestrian portrait, Don Manuel commemorated one of his greatest achievements, the completion of the aqueduct of Tepotzotlán (more commonly known as the Arcos de Sitio) outside Mexico City. Born into one of Mexico’s leading Creole families, he had renounced several ancestral titles and associated properties by the time he assumed the role of governor of the Federal District (Mexico City). In his short term, he promoted the establishment of charities, improved local hospitals, and reformed the jails. When Napoleon III installed Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian as puppet emperor of Mexico in 1864, Don Manuel, a staunch Mexican patriot and liberal idealist, immigrated to France. He lived there through Maximilian’s fall in 1867 (his portrait and that of his daughter, illustrated below, were probably commissioned at that time), supporting Mexican liberals expelled by the short-lived European regime. After the defeat of the empire, he returned to Mexico, where he remained for the rest of his life. En su retrato ecuestre de cuerpo entero, don Manuel conmemora uno de sus grandes logros, la culminación del acueducto de Tepotzotlán (más comúnmente conocido como Arcos de Sitio) en las afueras de la Ciudad de México. Nacido en el seno de una de las familias criollas más importantes de México, don Manuel había renunciado ya a numerosos títulos ancestrales y propiedades asociadas a ellos para cuando asumió el papel de Gobernador del Distrito Federal (Ciudad de México). En un corto periodo, promovió el establecimiento de obras de caridad, mejoró hospitales locales y reformó las cárceles. Cuando Napoleón III instaló al Archiduque Ferdinando Maximiliano como emperador marioneta de México en 1864, don
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