Francisco Hernandez Monjo, Menorca 1862 - 1937
Marina con barco, Navy warship
Oil on canvas
60 x 100 cm
Private collection
Francisco Hernandez Monjo, Menorca 1862 - 1937, was born 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 developed a reputation as painter of sea-coasts and landscapes of Balearic island. He was also an exellent pianist, inspired composer and important folklorist. He annotated more than 60 melodies for the "Esbart Folklore de Catalunya" orchestrated for orchestra, cobla and quintet. He also composed several studies of concert and works of minor importance specially for piano. More on Francisco Hernandez Monjo
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