부산대학교 도서관

(b Lisbon, July 24, 1829; d May 12, 1877). Portuguese painter. He studied in Lisbon from 1841 to 1847 at the Academia de Belas-Artes, where he was a pupil of António Manuel de Fonseca and André Monteiro da Cruz (1770–1843). He belonged to the first generation of Romantic artists in Portugal, and as a form of Romantic protest he left the Academia in 1847. He worked for two years as an engraver in the Arsenal do Exército (Arsenal of the Army) and then returned to painting in 1849, but the quality of his work was uneven. In the painting that became famous as the manifesto of Romanticism, Five Artists at Sintra (1855; Lisbon, Mus. N. A. Contemp.), he portrayed his contemporaries—the painters Tomás José Anunciação, Francisco Metrass and José Rodrigues and the sculptor Vítor Bastos—as well as himself. In the centre foreground Anunciação, to whom this work is a homage, is painting in the open air, surrounded by a group of curious country people against the background of the Gothic-style Pena Palace, Sintra, built by Ferdinand II in ...