Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer learned the first rudiments of the art of painting from his cousin José, the initiator of this outstanding dynasty of painters, and in turn was the teacher of his nephew Valeriano Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo's brother. The young painter then entered the Santa Isabel School of Fine Arts in Seville, an institution of which, over the years, he would become a professor and director, as well as an academician since 1847.

He was also a member of the Real Academia Sevillana de las Buenas Letras, one of the founders of the Liceo Artístico of his native city, and was commissioned by Isabel II to direct the pictorial works carried out on the occasion of the restoration of the Reales Alcázares of Seville. He was hono...