Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve

Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Eduardo Soler Llopis is recorded as having studied under Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve. Places of work recorded in the authority are Madrid. Work by Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Hispanic Society of America and Museum of Romanticism. Distinctions recorded are Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

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. 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.

He cultivated historical themes with pictures as Don Rodrigo Calderon Gallows Road and The Taking of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs and the religious such as The Conversion of St. Paul, The Assumption of the Virgin. He decorated the interior of the Palace of the Parliament (1850) and the church of San Francisco el Grande Basilica.

• Illustration — Family of Don Gregorio Lopez Mollinedo by Carlos Luis, private collection, 1854 Luis de Ribera exhibited his works most frequently in Paris. It was his city of choice for exhibitions between 1839 and 1855. He also exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the Artistic and Literary Liceo.

The authorities additionally record the headings Carlos Luis de Ribera, Carlos Luis Ribera y Fieve, Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fievée, Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fievee and Carlos Luis de Ribera Fievée. He was the child of Juan Antonio de Ribera.