Moncloa awards the portrait of Mariano Rajoy to Hernán Cortés for 75,000 euros

MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government has awarded the preparation of the portrait of former President Mariano Rajoy to the painter Hernán Cortés for an amount of 75,000 euros, according to the Official State Gazette (BOE) on Tuesday.

It was the only offer received to carry out the 'Portrait service of ex-president D. Mariano Rajoy', as stated in the notice of formalization of contracts awarded by the Deputy Directorate General of the Budget Office and Economic management.

Hernán Cortés Moreno (Cádiz, 1953) has already painted official portraits that can be seen in the headquarters of the Council of Ministers in the Moncloa Complex, where all the official portraits of the heads of the Executive have been found since 1978.

Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz since 1994, medal of honor of the Granada Academy and favorite son of his hometown, he signs the portraits of numerous politicians, including those of former presidents Felipe González and José María Aznar.

He has also painted several of King Juan Carlos and, commissioned by the Madrid City Council, he painted what is now Queen Letizia when she became Princess of Asturias. The one he painted of the former president between 1996 and 2002, Íñigo Cavero, hangs in the Council of State.

The former vice president and former director of the IMF Rodrigo Rato, the former Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre, the former ministers Rafael Arias Salgado and Ángel Gabilondo, the businesswoman Alicia Koplowitz and the architect Norman Foster are other personalities portrayed by Cortés Moreno.

The politicians commissioned by Congress and the Senate on the occasion of the XXX anniversary of the first democratic elections are also his works, with the seven 'fathers' of the Constitution in the Lower House and personalities of the 30 years of democracy in the Upper House.