他在Cañamelar，瓦伦西亚，下学画生于旧金山多明戈马尔克斯，并从第一个此类标记的人才，他被送到西班牙学校放映罗马。从1903年至1913年，他是主任的西班牙语学院美术。

他是西班牙政府在意大利居住地领取养老金，并执行公共建筑装修订单的几种状态选择圈之一; 但他欠他的主要的名气给他大型历史画，尤其是“Vision在斗兽场”。他成为了罗马，在那里他练的画家和雕塑家的西班牙艺术殖民地的领导者。

他于1880年结婚，玛丽亚·奥尔蒂斯在罗马建立了他的住所后。在意大利，他画的小风俗画，并开始在城市阿西西的体育馆（现美术在瓦伦西亚博物馆），他赢得了一等奖在全国展览的1887年绘画的景观，连同他的兄弟，雕塑家马里亚诺Benlliure，谁提出的画家获奖雕塑何塞普·德里贝拉。

Benlliure获得多项成功在巴黎，慕尼黑，斯图加特和柏林与他的画。1903年，他担任了西班牙罗马学院领导，接替他的哥哥玛丽安，他将保持十年的位置。

他也是画家的父亲何塞普Benlliure我奥尔蒂斯，被称为巴比诺，谁是出生在罗马于1884年。1919年年底，他在马德里的皇家剧院的大厅投降进贡到罗马的45画展览的养老金领取者。当他返回到瓦伦西亚，他被任命为美术学院Vaslentia（色格拉代佳丽艺术）圈的名誉会长，并以主任作了博物馆去佳丽艺术瓦伦西亚，他按住，直到1924年的位置，他收到意大利冠荣誉军团官的十字大十字由法国政府。

他的哥哥胡安·安东尼奥和马里亚诺分别也是画家和雕塑家。
 

He was born at Cañamelar, Valencia, studied painting under Francisco Domingo Marqués, and showed from the first such marked talent that he was sent to the Spanish school in Rome. From 1903 to 1913, he was director of the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts.

He was one of the select circle pensioned by the Spanish government for residence in Italy and executed several state orders for the decoration of public buildings; but he owes his chief fame to his large historical paintings, notably the "Vision in the Coliseum." He became the leader of the Spanish art colony in Rome, where he practised as painter and sculptor.

He married to Maria Ortiz in 1880, after establishing his residence in Rome. In Italy he painted small genre paintings, and begins in the city of Assisi on the View of the Coliseum (now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia), a painting he won a first prize in the National exhibition of 1887, together with his brother, the sculptor Mariano Benlliure, who presented the award winning sculpture of the painter Josep de Ribera.

Benlliure obtained several successes in Paris, Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin with his paintings. In 1903 he assumed leadership of the Spanish Academy in Rome, succeeding his brother Marian, a position he would keep for ten years.

He was also the father of painter Josep Benlliure i Ortiz, known as Peppino, who was born in Rome in 1884. In late 1919 the pensioners he surrendered a tribute to Rome with an exhibition of 45 paintings in Madrid in their halls of Theatre Royal. When he returns to the Valencia he is appointed as honorary president of the Circle of Fine Arts in Vaslentia (Cercle de Belles Arts), and made to director of the Museu de Belles Arts de València, a position he hold until 1924. He receives the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy and the Cross of Officer of the Legion of Honor by the French government.

His brothers Juan Antonio and Mariano were also a painter and a sculptor, respectively.