Career
He was a resident of Rome. 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 Warsaw, Poland.
In 1830-1848, he moved to Paris.
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 Academy of Fine Arts of Florence 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 Academy of Fine Arts of Street St. Petersburg.
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.
