Description

Height 115cm x Width 164cm
Provenance: ducal house of osuna
Oil on canvas
Signed: Carlos Luis Ribera

The Duchy of Osuna is a Spanish noble title, with Grandeur of Spain, created on October 5, 1562 by King Felipe II and awarded to Pedro Téllez-Girón y de la Cueva, v Count of Ureña.

In 1845, on March 23, he was appointed associate professor at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts. On the basis of his merits, he was granted the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III, on December 15, 1860, and in February 1861 he was replaced by Joaquín Espalter y Rull as a numerary professor of Ancient and Apparel of the High school. In addition, he was decorated with the great cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica, which was granted by decree of August 27, 1870. For years, since 1878, he participated as a jury member for the Royal Academy, and in the years 1883, 1886 and 1888 by the Ministry of State to grant the pension to Rome in subjects of Painting, History painting, and Engraving in hollow.

He held the position of chamber painter of Queen Elizabeth II, was a counselor of Public Instruction and director of the Academia De San Fernando

He cultivated the historical theme with paintings such as Don Rodrigo Calderón on the way to the scaffold and La Toma de Granada by the Catholic Monarchs; and also the religious one (The conversion of Saint Paul, The Assumption of the Virgin). He decorated the interior of the Palacio de las Cortes (1850) and the church of San Francisco el Grande, standing out in his turn as a very faithful portraitist, advocating a late-Romanesque pictorial art based on drawing, on the containment of form and on Franco-postclassic criteria. academics and courtly purism. In this case, in contrast with Federico de Madrazo and Kuntz before the romantic developments (technically, not in the concepts), in addition to that of Ingres, the influence of his teacher Paul Delaroche stands out, who, as a romantic painter within classicism, He was a spectacular portrait painter with incredible drawing quality, with contrasting colors and perfectly silhouetted contours, as well as a technical brushstroke finish that makes brush strokes imperceptible. But the disciples creations, such as the highly successful group portrait of La Familia de Don Gregorio López de Mollinedo, offer an intimate-romantic character that is the same as that reflected in large-format historical works such as those mentioned above.

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