Not much information has survived on the life of this Mexican painter to whom, to date and in the absence of new revelatory documentation, scholars of art history in the Viceroyalty have not dedicated the attention he deserves, to judge by the quality of his few existing known works.

Although sharing the same period as José de Ibarra and Miguel Cabrera might seem reason enough for many of them to have remained in the shadows, I feel the list of New Spanish masters could be suitably embellished by the addition of some less frequentlymentioned names, without casting too many (at times unfair) comparative aspersions.