His painting, "The Viaticum", which portrayed a dying beggar, won him a stipend from the Diputación de Valencia [es] which enabled him to continue his studies abroad.

He travelled throughout North Africa and Italy and participated in numerous expositions, obtaining honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860.

Because of his Republican sympathies, he was forced to leave Spain during the Third Carlist War and live in Rome until 1876.

[2] His works are widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, although thirteen paintings are preserved at the Museo de Málaga.

It was bought by Napoleon III and is currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.