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Born in Belgium, Carlos de Haes moved to Malaga with his family when he was nine years old. There he began studying art with Luis de la Cruz (1776-1850), a known painter of portraits and miniatures from the Canary Islands. On a trip back to Brussels in 1850, he became a disciple of Joseph Quinaux (1822-1895) and discovered landscape painting from the schools of Namur, Tervueren and Termonde. That
Following the death of his father and teacher, Francisco López Caro, he moved to Madrid where, according to Palomino, he studied with Alonso Cano. In Saint Francis of Assisi in the Porziuncola with the Donors Antonio Contreras and María Amezquita, which he painted in 1659 for the cloister of the convent of San Francisco in Segovia (Museo del Prado, from the Museo de la Trinidad), he reflects not