Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve

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.

[1] Luis de Ribera's time at the Academy of San Fernando was an influential period in his life as a painter.

He served as court painter to Queen Isabella II of Spain, and was later appointed to Minister of Public Instruction and Director of the Academy of San Fernando.

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.

His designed and provided illustrations for several of the periodicals of the time, such as The Artist and Journal of Home Culture and that of the Spanish Museum of Antiquities.