(b Areia, 1843; d Florence, 1905). Brazilian painter. His
precocious talent as a draughtsman was recognized as early as 1853,
when he accompanied the expedition led by the French naturalist
Louis Jacques Brunet to the north-east of Brazil. He then went to
Rio de Janeiro, where he entered the Academia Imperial das Belas
Artes in 1855. Under the patronage of Emperor Peter II he lived in
France from 1859 to 1864, studying with Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres and Horace Vernet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His
interests also included physics, philosophy and literature. His
essay ‘Refutation of the Life of Jesus by Renan’ won him the
decoration of the papal order of the Holy Sepulchre. He also painted
one of his first important pictures at this time, Carioca (‘Woman
from Rio de Janeiro’; 1862; Rio de Janeiro, Mus. N. B.A.). On his
return to Brazil he taught drawing (and, later, art history,
aesthetics and archaeology) at the Academia Imperial. When the
Republic was proclaimed in 1889, he became a member of the
constituent assembly.
Moses and Jochebed
A Carioca
The Night with the Genii of Study and Love
Dom Pedro II of Brazil
Pax et Concórdia e Tiradentes esquartejado
Judith thanks Jehovah for being able to free her homeland from
Holofernes
Joana D'Arc escuta a voz pela primeira vez
1884
A rabequista árabe
David and Abishag
Batalha do Avahy
Proclamacao da Independencia
Pax et Concordia
1902
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