Benedito Calixto de Jesus (14 October 1853 – 31 May 1927) was a Brazilian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. His works usually depicted figures from Brazil and Brazilian culture, including a famous portrait of the ''

bandeirante The ''Bandeirantes'' (), literally "flag-carriers", were slavers, explorers, adventurers, and fortune hunters in early Colonial Brazil. They are largely responsible for Brazil's great expansion westward, far beyond the Tordesillas Line of 1494 ...

Domingos Jorge Velho Domingos Jorge Velho (1641–1705) was one of the fiercest and most effective bandeirantes. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo. He was responsible for t ...

in 1923, and scenes from the coastline of São Paulo. Unlike many artists of the time, Calixto's patron was an individual other than the state, who were "the most dependable source of patronage."

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File:Benedito Calixto de Jesus - Moagem de Cana - Fazenda Cachoeira - Campinas, 1830, Acervo do Museu Paulista da USP.jpg, ''Sugarcane crushing in Cacheira Farm in Campinas'' File:Benedito Calixto - Anchieta e Nóbrega na cabana de Pindobuçu.jpg, ''Anchieta e Nóbrega na cabana de Pindobuçu'' Image:Domingos Jorge Velho.jpg, ''

'' File:Benedito Calixto - Naufrágio do Sírio, 1907.jpg, ''The sinking of the SS Sirio'' Image:Proclamação da República by Benedito Calixto 1893.jpg, '' Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic

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1853 births 1927 deaths People from São Paulo (state) 19th-century Brazilian painters 19th-century Brazilian male artists 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists Brazilian cartographers {{Brazil-painter-stub

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