He was a Spaniard; he was a pupil of the landscape painter Carlos de Haes, a Belgian living in Spain, and of Martin Rico. Beruete was both a prolific painter and a scholar; for instance, he was the author of the first descriptive catalogue of the complete works of Velazquez. As time went on his palette became lighter, brighter and more luminous, as he tried to capture the  transparency and clarity of the atmosphere, and it is this attitude towards light that brings him very close to the Impressionists. He painted views in the country round Madrid, and also Toledo, Avila and Cuenca - for example View of Madrid from the Manzanares, as well landscapes in France, Holland and the English coast.

Based on Phaidon encyclopedia of Impressionism, Maurice Serullaz, Phaidon, 1978