Luna moved back to the Philippines in 1894 and traveled to Japan in 1896, returning during the Philippine Revolution where he and his brother Antonio were arrested by Spanish authorities for their involvement with the rebel army. In 1897, Luna was pardoned and released from prison, traveling back to Spain and later returning to Manila in 1898 when he was appointed to the Paris delegation working for diplomatic recognition of the Philippine Republic. In 1899, upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Luna was named to the Washington D.C. delegation but he traveled back to the Philippines upon hearing of his brother Antonio's murder, where he later died of a heart attack in Hong Kong on December 7, 1899.
Luna moved back to the Philippines in 1894 and traveled to Japan in 1896, returning during the Philippine Revolution where he and his brother Antonio were arrested by Spanish authorities for their involvement with the rebel army. In 1897, Luna was pardoned and released from prison, traveling back to Spain and later returning to Manila in 1898 when he was appointed to the Paris delegation working for diplomatic recognition of the Philippine Republic. In 1899, upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Luna was named to the Washington D.C. delegation but he traveled back to the Philippines upon hearing of his brother Antonio's murder, where he later died of a heart attack in Hong Kong on December 7, 1899.
Luna moved back to the Philippines in 1894 and traveled to Japan in 1896, returning during the Philippine Revolution where he and his brother Antonio were arrested by Spanish authorities for their involvement with the rebel army. In 1897, Luna was pardoned and released from prison, traveling back to Spain and later returning to Manila in 1898 when he was appointed to the Paris delegation working for diplomatic recognition of the Philippine Republic. In 1899, upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Luna was named to the Washington D.C. delegation but he traveled back to the Philippines upon hearing of his brother Antonio's murder, where he later died of a heart attack in Hong Kong on December 7, 1899.
In 1894 Luna moved back to the Philippines and traveled to Japan in 1896,
returning during the Philippine Revolution of the Cry of Balintawak.
Unfortunately, on September 16, 1896, he and his brother Antonio Luna were arrested by Spanish authorities for being involved with the Katipunan rebel army.[7] Despite his imprisonment, Luna was still able to produce a work of art which he gave to a visiting priest. He was pardoned by the Spanish courts on May 27, 1897 and was released from prison and he traveled back to Spain in July.[8]:394 He returned to Manila in November 1898.[8]:394 In 1898, he was appointed by the executive board of the Philippine revolutionary government as a member of the Paris delegation which was working for the diplomatic recognition of the Repblica Filipina (Philippine Republic). In 1899, upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1898),[9] Luna was named a member of the delegation to Washington, D.C. to press for the recognition of the Philippine government. He traveled back to the Philippines in December 1899 upon hearing of the murder of his brother Antonio by the Kawit Battalion in Cabanatuan. He traveled to Hong Kong and died there on December 7, 1899 from a heart attack. His remains were buried in Hong Kong and in 1920 were exhumed and kept in Andrs Luna's house, to be later transferred to a niche at the Crypt of the San Agustin Church in the Philippines. Five years later, Juan would be reinstated as a world-renowned artist and Peuple et Rois, his last major work, was acclaimed the best entry to the Saint Louis World's Fair in the United States.[10] Unfortunately some of his paintings were destroyed by fire in World War II.