Spanish engraver and painter, part of a family of artists, nephew of Luis Salvador Carmona. He began his artistic training with his uncle and in classes at the Junta Preparatoria de la Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid, initially in sculpture and drawing. In 1752 he was sent to Paris to learn engraving, specializing in portraiture and historical prints. There he trained with Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis and produced numerous engravings, among which were prints of some of the best portraits painted at the French court in addition to both past and contemporary religious, allegorical and genre compositions. He joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture as an assistant in 1759, presenting a variety of prints after paintings by Anthony van Dyck, Carle Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Pierre and Alexandre Roslin. He became an academician in 1761, submitting engravings of portraits by François Boucher and Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont (1693-1761). After marrying Margarita Legrand, he returned to Madrid in 1762 and was appointed honorary academician at the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1764, specializing in engraving and painting. He became Director de Grabado at the Real Academia in 1777. In 1778, having been widowed, he married Ana Maria Mengs, daughter of Anton Raphael Mengs, in Rome and returned with her to Madrid. In 1783 he received the title of Grabador de Cámara del Rey. His royal commissions included an engraving of Luisa of Bourbon, Princess of Asturias (1774), and among his patrons were the Church, aristocracy, printing presses and scholars. His technique was fastidious, and his subject-matter was very varied, ranging from such portraits as José Herrando (1756) to a Holy Family (1781) and such illustrative works as Don Quixote Reading Books of Chivalry (1780). //