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Bernardo German de Llorente (1685 – 1757) was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period.
He was born and died in Seville. He was a pupil of Cristobal Lopez, painter of la Feria. Llorente worked in a style resembling Murillo. Father Isidoro de Sevilla, a capuchin missionary, commissioned from him a Virgin in shepherd dress. This painting brought him fame and many similar requests. He was asked by the Queen Isabel Farnese to paint a portrait of her son Don Philip. This was successful enough that in 1717 he was called to Madrid by Philip V, who desired to make him court painter, but he declined the honor, preferring an independent life. In 1735, he was inducted into the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He so frequently painted the Virgin Mary as a shepherdess that he was called the “Painter of Shepherdesses.”
His painting "San Francisco de Borja" is at the Loyola University Art Museum, Chicago.