Abel Manta (12 October 1888 in Gouveia – 9 August 1982 in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

) was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist. Between 1904 and 1916 attended the school of Fine Arts, completed the course in painting, having won the third Prize of the National Society of Fine Arts. In 1919 he went to Paris participating in the "Salon de la Société Nationale" among other galleries, having also attended the course of engraving with

William Schlumberger William Schlumberger (1800 – April 1838) was a European chess master. He is known to have taught Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant to play chess and as the operator of The Turk, a chess-playing machine which was purported to be an automato ...

. While there he met his wife, the Portuguese artist

Clementina Carneiro de Moura Clementina Carneiro de Moura (1898-1992) was a Portuguese teacher, modernist painter and promoter of traditional arts. Early life Maria Clementina Vilas Boas Carneiro de Moura was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 25 September 1898, the daughter of J ...

. He made several trips to study in Europe.

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1888 births 1982 deaths People from Gouveia, Portugal Portuguese architects 20th-century Portuguese painters 20th-century male artists Portuguese male painters {{Portugal-architect-stub