He appears to have learned his trade from painter Antonio de Lanchares, who died in 1630. He then spent time in El Escorial, where his particular attention to the Venetian canvases allowed him to acquire a technique so close to that of Titian that some of his works—“Saint Stephen” (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille), for example— have been mistaken for those of that master from Cadore. He is known to