Ricardo Villodas y de la Torre trained as a painter at the Madrid Fine Art School under Federico Madrazo, and received numerous accolades: a medal at the 1868 Aragonese Exhibition for the painting The Soup Kitchen; Second Place Medal at the 1876 National Fine Arts Exhibition for The Death of Cesar and another Second Place Medal for Message from Charles I to Cardinal Cisneros in 1878, a painting that was also exhibited at the Paris World Fair of the same year. In 1874 his work appeared in the group exhibition of modern artists organised by the industrialist Pedro Bosch.
Ricardo Villodas y de la Torre trained as a painter at the Madrid Fine Art School under Federico Madrazo, and received numerous accolades: a medal at the 1868 Aragonese Exhibition for the painting The Soup Kitchen; Second Place Medal at the 1876 National Fine Arts Exhibition for The Death of Cesar and another Second Place Medal for Message from Charles I to Cardinal Cisneros in 1878, a painting that was also exhibited at the Paris World Fair of the same year. In 1874 his work appeared in the group exhibition of modern artists organised by the industrialist Pedro Bosch.