(b Minde, Porto de M?s, 4 April 1864; d Lisbon, 5 Aug 1935). Portuguese watercolourist and illustrator. He attended drawing classes at the Academia de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, where he was a pupil of Manuel de Macedo and Jos? Sim?es de Almeida. Between 1883 and 1886 he studied in Leipzig at the School of Arts and Crafts with a state scholarship. He had lessons with Ludwig Nieper (1826-1906) and specialized in lithography. He returned to Portugal in 1886, directed the offices of the Companhia Nacional Editora and in 1894 was appointed teacher of the Escola Industrial do Pr?ncipe Real, Lisbon. Among a vast body of illustrations are Portuguese Popular Types (1887), printed in collaboration with Manuel de Macedo and Rafael and Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro. In 1888 he won a silver medal at the Exposi??o Industrial Portuguesa, Lisbon. He illustrated the complete works of Almeida Garrett (1906), Luis de Cam?es's Lusiads in an edition of 1900 and, with Alberto de Sousa (b 1880), Quadros da Hist?ria de Portugal (1916), coordinated by Chagas Franco and Jo?o Soares.
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