1862 Mahon, Spain - 1937 Barcelona, Spain. Known for: Painting.
Francisco Hernandez Monjo was born in Mahon in 1862 into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and...
Read full biography Francisco Hernandez Monjo was born in Mahon in 1862 into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at...
Read full biography Francisco Hernandez Monjo was born in Mahon in 1862 into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1898, the house Tasso Barcelona commissioned a collection of watercolors of warships for the book “The Spanish Armada”. He exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid,...
Read full biography Francisco Hernandez Monjo was born in Mahon in 1862 into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1898, the house Tasso Barcelona commissioned a collection of watercolors of warships for the book “The Spanish Armada”. He exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Mahon and South America to favorable reviews. He died in Barcelona in 1937.
Francisco Hernandez Monjo was born in Mahon in 1862 into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1898, the house Tasso Barcelona commissioned a collection of watercolors of warships for the book “The Spanish Armada”. He exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Mahon and South America to favorable reviews. He died in Barcelona in 1937.