Early Life
Camilo Alejandro Egas Silva was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1889 and grew up in the San Blas neighborhood. He studied at the College of San Gabriel y Mejia before enrolling, Egas studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Quito in 1905. He stayed at the school until 1911 and studied under Paul Bar and Víctor Puiz.In 1919, Egas studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid on a second government grant.
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