New England / New Spain: portraiture in the colonial Americas, 1492-1850 : papers from the 2014 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum

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Foreword / Christoph Heinrich -- Introduction and acknowledgments / Donna Pierce -- Cortés and Moctezuma: words, pictures, and likeness in sixteenth-century New Spain / Michael J. Schreffler -- In his own image: a humanist portrait of Antonio de Mendoza, First Viceroy of New Spain / Clare Kunny -- "Copies or resemblances of nature": the limitations of portrait painting in colonial British America / Susan Rather -- Selfhood and surroundings in early American portraiture: an ecocritical approach / Karl Kusserow -- Corporate portraiture in New Spain: social bodies, the individual, and their spaces of display / Paula Mues Orts -- Reading dress in New Spanish portraiture: clothing the Mexican elite, circa 1695-1805 / James Middleton -- Regional tastes in transatlantic market: Joseph Blackburn in New England and Bermuda / Jennifer Van Horn -- Colonial ambition abroad: Benjamin West's American portraits in London / Kaylin Haverstock Weber -- The New England portraits of Ralph Earl: fashining a style for the new citizens of the young republic / Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser -- Spanish presence in a fledgling republic: portraiture in Hispanic Amerca and the United States / Michael A. Brown.