Ant?nio Teixeira Carneiro

(b Amarante, 16 Sept 1872; d Oporto, 31 March 1930). Portuguese painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He was brought up in an orphanage in Oporto, where he attended the drawing class of the Escola de Belas-Artes; there he was a pupil of Ant?nio Soares dos Reis and then studied painting from 1890 to 1896. In 1897 he went to Paris with a grant from the Marqu?s de Praia e Monforte. From 1897 to 1899 he attended the Acad?mie Julian, where he was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. The Parisian fin-de-si?cle ambience helped form his style. The influence of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Eug?ne Carri?re and the Symbolism of Edvard Munch were important in his work. In his first major painting, the triptych Life (1899-1901; Vila Nova de Famalic?o, Fund. Cupertino de Miranda), Carneiro developed his personal vision of Symbolism on the theme of hope, love and saudade (longing or nostalgia), inspired by Puvis de Chavannes and with the crisp, sweet drawing and pale colours of that artist.

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