Juan Cordero, Renowned Mexican Portraitist and Scholar of the 19th Century

Belonging to the national academic tradition and considered one of the greatest figures of Mexican painting of the nineteenth century Juan Nepomuceno María Bernabé del Corazón de Jesús Cordero Hoyos was born in Teziutlán, Puebla on May 16, 1824, son of the Spanish merchant Tomás Cordero and of the Mexican María Dolores de Hoyos and Mier, who, noting his talent for drawing, encouraged him to enter the Academy of San Carlos (also known as the Scho…