António Carvalho da Silva (11 November 1850 – 1 June 1893), known as Silva Porto, was a Portuguese naturalist painter.

Biography

Born in

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, he studied there under

João António Correia João António Correia (26 December 1822 – 16 March 1896) was a Portuguese painter and art professor. Biography His father was a textile merchant. He enrolled at the "Academia Real de Marinha e Comércio", taking the course in design fr ...

and Tadeu de Almeida Furtado, then continued his studies in Paris and Rome. While in Paris he exhibited his work in the

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and in the World's Fair of 1878. In Paris, he studied with his friend

João Marques de Oliveira João Joaquim Marques da Silva Oliveira (23 August 1853 – 9 October 1927) was a Portuguese painter in the Naturalist style. Biography Oliveira was born in Porto. In 1864, when he was only eleven, he entered the . Five years later, he enrolled ...

, where they were pupils of Adolphe Yvon and Alexandre Cabanel. They became followers of the naturalist Barbizon School, and brought the new school of painting to

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, when they returned in 1879. Silva Porto become one of the most acclaimed naturalist painters of his generation, showing the heritage of

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and

Charles-François Daubigny Charles-François Daubigny ( , , ; 15 February 181719 February 1878) was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism. He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etchin ...

. Secondary effects from

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can sometimes be found in his paintings. He died in 1893 in

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. His work is represented at the

Chiado Museum The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Chiado Museum, in Portuguese: ''Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado'' – MNAC) is an art museum located in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. It was created in 1911 and re-inaugu ...

, in

, and at the

National Museum Soares dos Reis Soares dos Reis National Museum ( pt, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis) is a museum, currently housed in the Carrancas Palace situated in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portu ...

, in Porto.

Selected paintings

File:Antonio da Silva Porto - Volta do mercado.jpg, ''Going to Market'', 1886 File:Antonio da Silva Porto - Recanto de praia.jpg, ''A Quiet Place on the Beach'' File:Antonio da Silva Porto - Na cisterna.jpg, ''At the Well'', oil on paper

External links

*
Six Centuries of Portuguese Painting
catalogue from the

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1850 births Artists from Porto 1893 deaths 19th-century Portuguese painters Portuguese male painters 19th-century male artists University of Porto alumni {{Portugal-painter-stub