In 1886, he and several other students of Villegas held a showing at the Ateneo de Madrid. The following year, he entered the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with a painting of a shipwreck and was given honorable mention. In 1888, he sent another painting of a shipwreck to the Barcelona Universal Exposition, and one called "Ostia" to the Internationalen Kunstausstellung at the Glaspalast (Munich).