Luigi or Louis Rubio ( Rome, between 1797 and 1808 – Florence, 2 August 1882) was an Italian painter, active in both

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but later

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styles, painting mainly historic-mythologic canvases, as well as some genre subjects, and portraits. His works harked back to the

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twenty years earlier.

Biography

He was a resident of Rome. He studied as a young man at the Academy of San Luca, and there won the Canova prize. In 1823 he moves to study at the Institute of Fine Arts of Parma: here he won a prize for his ''Priam at the feet of Achilles''. In 1824 at Rome, his canvas of ''The Samaritan'' won the Pio Clementine Prize, two gold medals, and granted him a pension of 15 scudi monthly for three years, paid by the papal government under Pope Leo XII. In 1827 he was nominated honorary academic at the Academy in Rome. From 1827-1830, he was commissioned to work for the Count Zamoyski, President of the Senate at

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. In 1830-1848, he moved to Paris. His major painting ''

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'' was a highly finished and detailed canvas exhibited at the

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of 1833, whose colours harked back to those of the turn of the 19th century. Its composition owes much to other depictions of the episode, such as

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' many versions,

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's painting (1812, purchased by

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) and 19th-century engravings. At the 1836 Exposition there, he displayed a canvas depicting ''Marriage of Salvator Rosa on his Deathbed''; and he won a gold medal a number of commissions for the Museum of Versailles, which was being opened by King Louis Philippe I. At Paris, in addition to portraits, he painted canvases for the Russian Chapel, and a canvas for the church of the contessa Malacoska; another for the Catholic Church of Moscow, a ''Christ, Saints Peter and Paul''. In 1842, he won silver medal at the Exposition at

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. In 1843, he won the silver medal at the Exhibition of Boulogne sur-Mer for his portraits. In 1849, Pope Pius IX raised him to equestrian rank in the order of San Silvestro. In 1862 named knight of the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro. In 1870 he was nominated professor of the

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and in 1862, his self-portrait was added to the hall of painters at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. He was also awarded a prize by Abdülmecid I, for whom Rubio crafted a portrait while in Istanbul. In 1853 he was elected professor at the

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. In 1867 he made painted an icon of San Stanislaus sent to Tsar Alexander II, after decorating the Russian church in Geneva. Among his later works are: ''Donna che attinge acqua al fonte'' (1844); ''The painter Rubens persuades young Van Dyck to leave the Flemish village of Saventhem, where he had stayed for the love of a young woman'' (1851); ''Costumes from the surroundings of Rome''(1861); ''Una filatrice'' (1861); ''Shepherds of the Roman Campagna'' (1861); ''Contadina che fila'' (1861); ''The Charity'' (1863); ''Neapolitan Fishermen'' (1863); ''Episode from the 1174 Siege of Ancona'' (1866); and a ''Portrait of Marcello'' (1870), the famous classical music composer.Istituto Matteucci biography.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubio, Luigi 1795 births 1882 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists