Daniel Sobrino Ralston

Daniel Sobrino Ralston

Daniel is the CEEH Associate Curator of Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery, London. His dissertation considers Mariano Fortuny and other prominent Spanish painters at work in Paris and Rome in the 1860s and 1870s, analyzing how they interacted with, modified, and subtly subverted the art and expectations of their French contemporaries, especially Édouard Manet. In 2019, he curated Sorolla in the Studio, a focused exhibition at the Meadows Museum that explored the working methods of Joaquín Sorolla. His recent reattribution of a painting to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo appeared in the catalogue of the Kimbell Art Museum’s exhibition Murillo: From Heaven to Earth. Daniel received his BA in art history and Spanish from the University of British Columbia. His work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2017–2018), the Meadows Curatorial Fellowship (2018–2019), a research grant from the Casa de Velázquez (2021), and the CEEH Fellowship in Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery, London (2021–2022).