Brother of the painter José Antolínez and a lawyer by profession, Francisco was a curious scholar who, among his many interests, chose painting as a subject of interest. He was in the habit of not signing his works, as he preferred to present himself as a man versed in law, although one painting signed by his hand has survived: the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Cathedral of Seville, a composition dated 1678, from which numerous works have been attributed to him.

He specialized in producing series with biblical depictions from the Old or New Testament, which he conceived as genre scenes set in large landscapes with a marked narrative character. Such is the case of these two paintings dedicated to the life of Jacob, in which the...