Vieira Portuense
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Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
, 13 May 1765 - Funchal
Funchal
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, 2 May 1805), who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese
Portugal
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painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism
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in Portuguese painting. He was, in the neoclassical style, one of the two great Portuguese painters of his generation, with Domingos Sequeira
Domingos Sequeira
Domingos António de Sequeira , was a Portuguese painter.-Biography:He was born in Belém, Lisbon, into a modest family. He later changed his family name from Espírito Santo to the more aristocratic Sequeira...
.
Lisbon
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, later moving to Rome
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. He traveled through Italy
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, Germany
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, Austria
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and England
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, before returning to Portugal, in 1800. He met Swiss
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painter Angelika Kauffmann, from who he seems to have received influences.
He seems to anticipate some motives of the romantic painting, in several of his historical paintings, like "Dona Filipa de Vilhena knighting her sons" (1801).
He contracted tuberculosis
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, and moved to Madeira
Madeira
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, were he died, aged only 39.
He's represented at the National Museum of Ancient Art
National Museum of Ancient Art
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, in Lisbon, and at the National Museum Soares dos Reis
National Museum Soares dos Reis
National Museum Soares dos Reis , located in the ancient Carrancas Palace, in Porto, Portugal, is one of the most renowned Portuguese museums.The museum Soares dos Reis, founded in 1833, is Portugal's first national museum...
, in Porto.