Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve Sold at Auction Prices

Historical-scenes painter, Portrait painter, b. 1815 - d. 1891

Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve (1815, Rome – April 14, 1891, Madrid) was a Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera.

Baptismal godparents were the former king King Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma. Carlos Luis studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. His talent was recognized at the age of fifteen in 1830, when he won first prize in the Academy's contest for his portrait painting Vasco Núñez de Balboa. He also received a pension, which allowed him to pursue his higher studies in Rome and Paris. There, he studied under the French painter Paul Delaroche.[1]

Luis de Ribera's time at the Academy of San Fernando was an influential period in his life as a painter. During that time he was regular at the gatherings of Romantic thinkers in Madrid. He was one of the most active people in the foundation of the review El artista and contributed a large number of lithographs to it. He also studied art in Paris, which was something all aspiring artists did in those days. He spent nine years in Paris, working for a majority of that period in the studio of Paul Delaroche. It was Delaroche who motivated de Ribera to work on historical paintings.