In 1983, Benito Prieto Coussent entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, occupying the chair of D. Gabriel Morcillo, an artist who Prieto deeply admired. As a "little gift" to the Academy the artist donated his "Father Damien."

There are works in museums and collections in the United States, Mexico, Havana, Buenos Aires, Estoril, London, Madrid, Barcelona, La Coruna, Vigo, Tuy, Grenada, and among others, in the collections of the Ministry of Education and Science National Bank of Paris, Diputación Provincial de Lugo, Parish Galdo, the Monastery of Samos, Monasterio de Guadalupe Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Fine Arts "Alonso Cano," and Rector of the University of Granada, Royal Academy Fine Arts Our Lady of Sorrows of Granada Museum of Fine Arts in Granada, Count of Barcelona etc.etc.etc ...