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Painter and graphic designer. Rosado took his first painting lessons from Francisco Oller and Nicolás Pinilla. He also studied with Spaniard Fernando Díaz Mackenna from 1913 to 1924. In 1922, he established a commercial sign-making studio in Puerta de Tierra, which became a meeting place for artists. Many of the members of the “Fifties Generation” of Puerto Rican artists received their training in this studio, including Rafael Tufiño, Antonio Maldonado, Carlos Raquel Rivera, and David Goitía. A contemporary of Ramón Frade and Miguel Pou, like them Rosado employed a realistic style, with which he paid tribute to Puerto Rican values and traditions. His subjects included portraits, Puerto Rican “types,” still lifes, and landscapes, the last of which was a favored genre.