[1] The portrait painter Pedro José Figueroa was born in 1770 in Bogotá, Viceroyalty of New Granada, where he later died on March 24, 1836.

After completing his studies Figueroa founded his own painting studio where he taught various students including painter Garcia Hevia, the historian José Manuel Goot, and his own sons.

Figueroa's first major work came in 1804 when he painted the Viceroy Amar y Borbon who was a widely popular figure at the time.

Paintings of the Quinta de Bolívar, Bolívar portraits, the painting of “La Santisima Trinidad” are currently housed in the Cathedral of Bogota which also the portraits of Brion, Canon Duquesne, Fray Fernando del Portillo y Torres, and the archbishops and Fernando Caicedo Florez Juan Bautista Sacristan.

[2] [3] While the work of Figueroa was not numerous, they are interesting in that the painting and the painter himself lived at a crucial time when a colony was being shaped into a republic.