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Born into a modest family, he attended drawing classes offered by the Committee for the Preparation of the Founding of the Academy of San Fernando. There, he became a protege of José Carvajal y Lancaster, minister to Ferdinand VI, who assigned him a pension to visit Italy (1751). He moved to Rome to study with Corrado Giaquinto, whom he accompanied to Madrid in 1753. There, he maintained his relat
He was a Spanish painter and brother of fellow painters Luis and Alejandro. He studied drawing at the Preparatory Board of the San Fernando Academy. Afterwards, in 1746, he was awarded a scholarship to complete his training in Rome, in the workshop of Corrado Giaquinto. In 1748, this master and his assistant undertook the important project of decorating the church of la Santa Trinidad de los Españ