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Daniel Hernández Morillo was relocated to Lima where he developed his first studies and at the same time he showed his special skills for the art. When he was only 14 years old he is entrusted to painter Leonardo Barbieri so he could teach Daniel the first notions of art but the master did not expect to see the young pupil making a remarkable study about the “ The Death of Socrates” two years later.

In 1875, he traveled to Europe to study art with a scholarship granted by the Peruvian Government. He visited his countryman Merino who advised him to move to Rome. That was what he did, staying during ten years in Italy, absorbing the purest classicist aesthetic. Later he went to Paris and made ties with Fortuny, Pradilla, Villegas and others that practiced a loose, colorful, happy and precious oriented painting which had enough attractiveness to influence Hernandez. Paris offered our painter the enchantment of its sweet and sensual art of rococo style and that is why he decided to become a great admirer of the female beauty. The best proof of that are his “lazy women” and his extremely beautiful portraits.

The portrait of “Mrs. Luisa de Mezones” is a great comparison with “ Madame Pompadour” of Boucher. After a few trips to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Rome, he returned to Paris where he stays until 1917, that same year he returned to Peru to organize, inaugurate and direct the National School of Beaux Arts of Lima, invited by the Government and he held the position of director until his death in 1932. We can not address the work of the great master without mentioning one of his most relevant functions, the fact of becoming the pioneer, organizer and director, for many years of Peru’s Superior School of Beaux Arts. As a master, he indicates the following: “ In drawing, painting and sculpture, you must demand before everything else, to apply an interpretation of the expression, life, and the character of what it represents. The procedure must be sober, through great masses and avoid the frivolous preoccupation of superfluous details”. “ There is the need to look for the confidence of the stroke, the sincerity of the vision, the observation of multiple contingencies that appear in front of the natural”.

If we observe the work of this artist we positively find the precepts achieved that he proposes as a painter and as a master. His reflexive and technical talent allows him to show an excellent ability and a precious oriented and spontaneous execution. The freshness and purity of his colors highlights the beauty of its images especially his ladies that he painted with eternal charming admiration. He was the most requested official painter of his time. He was permanently executing work to decorate the palace of Government and other State entities. In the same way, he was admired and reviewed by the most distinguish personalities of Lima’s society.

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