José Moreno Carbonero studied under Bernardo Ferrándiz in his home town of Malaga, where he won the gold medal in a regional exhibition while still in his teens. At the age of fifteen he went to Paris, joining the studio of painter Jean Léon Gerôme (son-in-law of Adolphe Goupil and a friend of Mariano Fortuny and the Madrazo family) and received advice from Raimundo Madrazo. It was there that he first began making paintings on the theme of Don Quixote. He was awarded the Third Prize at the National Exhibition of 1876; the Second Prize in 1878; and the First Prize in 1881, for his Prince Charles of Viana (Museo del Prado). Three years later, he again won the first prize for his Conversion of the Duke of Gandía (Museo del Prado), one of the finest paintings on a historical theme from the Spanish School. He made paintings for the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande (for which he painted The Sermon on the Mount, in the chapel of the Passion) and was an academician and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
José Moreno Carbonero studied under Bernardo Ferrándiz in his home town of Malaga, where he won the gold medal in a regional exhibition while still in his teens. At the age of fifteen he went to Paris, joining the studio of painter Jean Léon Gerôme (son-in-law of Adolphe Goupil and a friend of Mariano Fortuny and the Madrazo family) and received advice from Raimundo Madrazo. It was there that he first began making paintings on the theme of Don Quixote. He was awarded the Third Prize at the National Exhibition of 1876; the Second Prize in 1878; and the First Prize in 1881, for his Prince Charles of Viana (Museo del Prado). Three years later, he again won the first prize for his Conversion of the Duke of Gandía (Museo del Prado), one of the finest paintings on a historical theme from the Spanish School. He made paintings for the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande (for which he painted The Sermon on the Mount, in the chapel of the Passion) and was an academician and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.