In 1706, sometime after taking his master's exam, and ten years before his death, Juan Correa was elected Guild Overseer, an important function in the hierarchy of this institution. In order to be elected overseer, a master had to be a person of renown and experience in the office, since they carried out the orders of mayors and town halls, and ensured compliance with the ordinances, orders and board of director agreements, or the advice of elders in their respective guilds. Other roles Juan Correa was associated with were that of asset valuer and inventory executor.  
Juan Correa married twice in his life; the dates of the weddings are not known, nor is the 'status' of each wife. There were no children from his first marriage, since his wife María de Páez died prematurely, but there were four offspring from his second marriage to Úrsula de Montoya: Miguel, Francisco, Diego and Felipa. Two of them took up painting as a profession: his firstborn, Miguel, who later became an officer, and Diego, who reached the level of master, but died very young. So far, around 400 works by Juan Correa have been catalogued, with another 40 located in museums or colonial buildings in Mexico being attributed to him, as well as those in private collections at home and abroad. The life and works of Juan Correa reflect the vital, dynamic and contrasting history of vice-royal Mexico in the seventeenth century, which, far from being a gloomy and static period, was in truth an era of intense mobility, profound transformations and important cultural bonding in which people of African descent played a fundamental role in Mexico's economic, social and cultural construction. Juan Correa died in Mexico City in 1716.