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Born to an upper-class family in Madrid, he studied law, completing his Doctorate in Civil Law in 1867. He combined those studies with an interest in the Fine Arts, beginning painting classes at the School of Fine Arts with Carlos de Haes in 1874 and visiting the Museo del Prado as a copyist. During the revolutionary period he was a member of parliament, but he abandoned his political activities a
He belongs to a generation of painters straddling the Spanish Baroque tradition and the influence of the French and Italian masters that Philip V brought to the Madrid court. He received training with his uncle Juan García de Miranda and entered the palace as his assistant in 1734 to restore the paintings in the royal collection. He excelled in this work to such extent that he was appointed painte