Ricardo de los Ríos (1846, Valladolid - May 1929, Madrid) was a Spanish painter, engraver, etcher and illustrator. He spent most of his early career in Paris.

Biography

He studied painting with

Isidore Pils Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects. Biography Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Le ...

, at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His initial works comprised battle scenes, portraits,

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s and interiors, as well as copies of the masters. His first exhibit came at the

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in 1867. Three years later, he was able to open a studio on the

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. Most of his oeuvre consists of etchings. He is known to have associated with the group of etchers led by

Alfred Cadart Alfred Cadart (4 April 1828 – 27 April 1875) was a French printer, writer and publisher, notable for his major part in the etching revival in mid-19th-century France and beyond. As founder of the French Société des Aquafortist ...

, founder of the

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, and may have been given lessons by one of its members. Several of his works appeared in Cadart's publications from 1876 to 1881. He became an associate member of the Société des Artistes Français, and exhibited at their salon until 1899; as well as with the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1890 to 1894. He was awarded a silver medal at the

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, and had a small showing at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). For several years, he was represented in the United States by the famous Knoedler art dealership. In 1899, he returned to Spain, where he succeeded as Professor of Engraving at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid.Antonio Gallego, ''Historia del grabado en España''. Madrid: Cátedra, 1999 He apparently did very little original work after that. He is primarily remembered for his etched illustrations of classic works; by Cervantes,

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, Balzac and

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, among others. He also did engraved portraits of notable people, such as Garibaldi and Pasteur, as well as his fellow Spanish artists.

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