Career
He entered the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City in 1884. After studying with Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Pina, he became dedicated to the painting of historical subjects favoured by liberal critics in an attempt to create a Mexican school of painting, establishing the Columbus at Rábida and the Founding of Tenochtitlán in Mexico City. The realist painting depicts the last Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc.
Foreign some years Izaguirre was a professor at the Academia, and had work commissioned in Europe (1904-1906).
He also worked as an illustrator for the magazine Mundo ilustrado.