他于艺术世家长大，就读于圣费尔南多美术学院，在那里他的老师Jenaro佩雷斯普维多维拉米。他也是一个哥哥的弟子贝尔纳（1825年至1894年），calcógrafo，与他担任一个绘图员和版画家，达到艺术总监的西班牙和美国插图。

在1854年，他们开始了他们的旅行在欧洲：巴黎，瑞士，英格兰和意大利。

在1907年：他的回忆录出版我的生活回忆，献给他的朋友马德里，园艺师奥雷利亚诺德Beruete。

10月30日的2012至2月10日为2013个展是在举行普拉多博物馆：景观马丁波多黎各（1833年至1908年）。

在他的作品从看到一种进化的现实主义有一定印象。的影响，特纳和雷斯达尔导致他画越来越多的人源化景观。他与关系马里亚诺Fortuny的加深转向明亮和油画印象派。他的一个最有名的作品是鹬拉Varenne酒店。

之后，他形成年在圣费尔南多美术学院，画家移到阿斯图里亚斯画大殿科瓦东加（1856年），后来又到西班牙的其他部分，如内华达山脉（1857年）和塞拉利昂瓜达拉马（ 1858）。

1862年他去巴黎报销雷蒙德马德拉佐并前往瑞士在那里 ，他遇到了亚历山大·卡蓝默，这将会对他和他的作品一样大的影响力Campesinos日，1862（卡门蒂森博物馆马拉加）。瑞士后，他移居到英国学习绘画特纳和大卫·罗伯茨。行程英国饱和在法国的地方后 ，他所研究的河流景观巴比松画派和杜比尼这会影响他在他的画周围的河流塞纳河，马恩省和瓦兹。由于他的工作这个时期刚刚结束的塞纳河夏季的一天在1870至1875年（卡门蒂森博物馆马拉加）。

在在普法战争（1870年至1871年）返回西班牙，并在1871年生活在格拉纳达与画家马里亚诺Fortuny的谁曾在法国会见了在1866年有画家的钦佩体现在众多的绘画和水彩画在进行城市的古迹。1872年与1875年和画家的重点描绘了城市塞维利亚。1875年，他开始了他的运动托莱多，将持续到1893年，在同一移动到其他地方，而像皇马或埃斯科里亚尔对他们的画作。

1872年他移居巴黎做出从众多的出游天以下意大利（一年那不勒斯，罗马，维罗纳等），这个时期的作品包括诸如圣劳伦斯河与钟楼希腊圣乔治堂，威尼斯 1900（卡门蒂森马拉加）坐落在威尼斯城最热门的地区之一。2期间，他在逗留法国搬到了法国地理学作为各点蔚蓝海岸或沙特尔。在1878年，他收到的荣誉军团对他的贡献在1878年世界博览会在巴黎。

他在法国逗留重叠在1873年他们的旅行中，以意大利艺术家知道威尼斯。威尼托大区的城市对谁看到画家深刻的钦佩它作为一个伟大的户外车间。他的风格明亮，色彩鲜艳，反射和精确的和珍贵的一笔让你赢了批评，尤其是在取得了巨大成功，的美国合众国，在那里它会停止他的大部分最后的作品。在威尼斯死了，葬在Cimitero di圣米歇尔。
 

He grew up in a family of artists, who attended Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, where his teacher Jenaro Peres Puerto villamil. He is also a brother of the disciple Bernard (1825 to 1894), calc grafo, and he served as a draughtsman and printmaker, reached the artistic director of the Spanish and American illustration.
In 1854, they began their trip in Europe: Paris, Switzerland, England and Italy.
In 1907: his memoirs published my memories of life, dedicated to his friend Madrid, gardener Ole Leah Nord Beruete.
October 30th 2012 to February 10th for the 2013 exhibition is held in Prado Museum: landscape Martin Puerto Rico (from 1833 to 1908).
In his works there is a certain impression from seeing an evolutionary realism. The influence of Turner and Les Dahl led the humanized landscape painting he more and more. His relationship with Mariano Fortuny's deepening turn to bright and oil painting impressionism. One of his most famous works is the snipe La Varenne.
After that, he formed the Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, the artist moved to Asturias painting Hall (1856), Covadonga and later to other parts of Spain, such as Sierra Nevada and Sierra Leone Guadarrama (1857) (1858).
In 1862 he went to Paris and Switzerland where Raymond Mudd Lazo claims that he met Alexander Calame, it will be for him and his works as much influence on Campesinos, 1862 (Carmen Thyssen Malaga Museum). After Switzerland, he moved to the UK to learn to paint Turner and David Roberts. British travel in France where saturated after he studied the Barbizon school and Dubini river landscape which will affect him in his paintings around the Seine River Marne River, and Vaz. Due to his work this period has just ended on a summer day in Seine River from 1870 to 1875 (Carmen Thyssen Museum, Malaga).
In the Franco Prussian War (1870 to 1871) returned to Spain in 1871 and lived in Granada and painter Mariano Fortuny who had met in France in 1866, in which many artists admired painting and watercolor painting in the city of monuments. In 1872 and in the year of 1875 and the artist's focus on depicting the city of Seville. In 1875, he began his campaign to Toledo, will continue until 1893, to other places in the same move, like Real Madrid or El Escorial in their paintings.
In 1872 he moved to Paris to travel from the many days following Italy (one year in Naples, Rome, Verona), works of this period include the St. Lawrence River and the tower of Greece and St Georges hall, Venice 1900 (Carmen Thyssen, Malaga) is located in the city of Venice is one of the most popular areas. 2 during his stay in France moved to France as the blue coast geography or chartres. In 1878, he received the Legion of honor for his contribution at the 1878 World Expo in Paris.
His stay in France overlaps in their travels in 1873, with Italy artists known to Venice. The city of the Veneto region who saw the painter admire it as a great outdoor workshop. His style is bright, colorful, reflection and accurate and valuable a let you win the criticism, especially in the United States has achieved great success, the United States, where it will stop most of his last works. In Venice died, was buried in Cimitero Di Saint michel.