He was the eldest son of independence era general Marcos Maturana del Campo and Francisca Molinas Berben; Single and without offspring.

In October of that year he was appointed first assistant of the General Inspection of the National Guard and in 1862 he became a lieutenant colonel.

Shortly after he resumed command of the Maestranza de Santiago and it was his responsibility to quell the fire that occurred in these facilities on January 27, 1880.

On September 29 of the same year he obtained the appointment of Chief of the General Staff, rank with which he participated in this war.

[3] Maturana General for years he dedicated himself to the acquisition of works of art such as ancient weapons, Inca archeological pieces, European porcelain, cologne items and paintings of different Chilean and foreign painters.

On July 31, 1880, together with the Florentine Juan Mochi, the sculptor José Miguel Blanco and the young painter Enrique Swinburn Kirk, the beginnings of the National Museum of Paintings, which had been formed with 140 works of art.