In the opinion Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, the high level of detail in the representation of the embroidery and lace in the clothes of the sitter points to a painter in the Flemish sphere, and he suggests Felipe Diricksen (1590-1679) or Rodrigo Villandrando (1588-1622) as possible authors, although the latter died prior to the date in which this portrait was probably made.

Juan González de Uzqueta was the founder of the Convento de las Carmelitas Descalzas in Boadilla del Monte. This full-length state portrait depicts him in an indoor setting, standing by a desk and a curtain that grant the composition great depth and force, and dressed for hunting in the style of the 1630s. From this convent, too, came the portrait of his wife, Doña María de Vera y Gasca, by Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-1685), and another of a Young Knight of the Order of Santiago that some speculate may be Don Juan himself as a youth. Both works are part of the BBVA Collection.

The fact that the construction of the convent was completed in 1674 —a date that appears in the inscription of the church’s frieze— when the sitter was already deceased, suggests that this piece was painted beforehand, when he was about twenty years of age, and then donated by his widow to the convent so it would be hung along with her portrait.