Germán Hernández Amores

He began by studying drawing with the Italian-born sculptor, Santiago Baglietto (1781-1853), at the Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País in Murcia.

The year 1851 found him in Paris, on a scholarship from the Consejo y Comisaría de Cruzada [es], obtained through the influence of Luis González Bravo.

In 1858, he was awarded a Second Class prize at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for his painting of Socrates reprimanding Alcibiades.

His depiction of the Virgin Mary and Saint John on their way to Ephesus received a First Class prize at the Exhibition of 1862.

Later, he became a professor at the Escuela Superior de Pintura and, in 1892, was named a member of the Real Academia.