José de Jáudenes y Nebot

José de Jáudenes was born in Valencia in 1764 and arrived in New York in 1785 as an assistant in the Spanish mission. He later served as chargé d’affaires, including a joint commission with Viar. In 1794 he married Matilda Stoughton of New York and commissioned Gilbert Stuart to paint their paired portraits. The portraits are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ^{1, 2}