• Was a Spanish baroque painter, the most prominent representative of Baroque painting in the Canary Islands.
• Born in La Orotava (Tenerife) as the son of a wealthy family from the neighboring town of Los Realejos.
• Cristóbal Hernández was welcomed and raised by a mulatta.
• At an unknown date he moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where the June 15, 1671 he married María Pérez de Vera.
• Only a year later, with little more than twenty years, he was already an apprentice in his workshop.
• On the death of his mother in 1679 he returned to Tenerife where he took up residence in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna where he remarried María Perdomo de la Concepción in 1686.
• From this marriage they were born at least six children.
• Among his major works include those of religious subjects as altarpieces and paintings.
• He died in 1725 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
