Alberto Pla y Rubio (Castelló de la Ribera, Valencia, 1867 - Barcelona, 1937) was a Spanish painter interested in social issues. He was a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, the Academy of Fine Arts in Cadiz and the La Lonja school in Barcelona. He studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans, and in the workshop of Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench. He won a first-class medal in the National Exhibition of 1895 with a canvas entitled ¡A la guerra! ("Off to War!") and won a second-class medal at the Paris Salon of 1899.