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. Artists are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

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Jorge Afonso Jorge Afonso (''c.'' 1470 – 1540) was an important Portugal, Portuguese Renaissance painter. Jorge Afonso was nominated royal painter in 1508 by Manuel I of Portugal, King Manuel I and again in 1529 by John III of Portugal, John III. He was mai ...

(c. 1470-1540) *

Nadir Afonso Nadir Afonso, Order of St. James of the Sword, GOSE (4 December 1920 – 11 December 2013) was a Portuguese Geometric abstract art, geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with L ...

(1920-2013) *

Filipe Alarcão Filipe Alarcão (born 1963 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese product designer. His designs range from the renowned china, porcelain and casual dishes manufactured by Vista Alegre to the contemporary furniture design of Temahome. He obtained a ...

(born 1963), designer * Francisco Keil do Amaral (1910-1975) * Helena Almeida (1934-2018) *

Sofia Areal Sofia Areal (born in Lisbon, 4 June 1960) is a Portuguese abstract painter, whose works adhere mostly to organic non-geometrical forms and a strong chromatic focus. Besides painting and drawing, Areal's work involves collage, textile design, and s ...

(born 1960)

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Carlos Botelho Carlos Botelho (18 September 1899, in Lisbon – 18 August 1982, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, comics artist, political cartoonist, satirist and caricaturist, whose works are shown at the Chiado Museum and at the Mode ...

(1899-1982) *

Manuel Botelho Manuel Botelho (born 1950, Lisbon) is a Portuguese artist. He lives and works in Estoril, Portugal, and teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. Botelho was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He studied architecture at the Lisbon School ...

(born 1950) * Joao de Brito (born 1958), Portuguese-American artist, oil painter and sculptor

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Pedro Calapez Pedro Calapez, (born 1953 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese ...

(born 1953) * Fernando Calhau (1948-2002) * Nuno de Campos (1969-) *

Manuel Carmo Jorge Manuel do Carmo Pereira de Almeida (1958–2015) was a Portuguese artist and author known for his contemporary works. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Manuel Carmo practised as a lawyer before beginning to study art in the early 1980s at Ar.Co, ...

(1958-2015) * António Carneiro (1872-1930) * João Carqueijeiro (1954-),

plastic artist Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics. Less often the term may be used broadly for all the visual arts (such as painting, sculpture, film and pho ...

Nicolau Chanterene Nicolau Chantereine (also called Nicolas Chanterenne or Nicolas de Chanterenne) (c.1485 – 1551) was a French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain. It is assumed that he was born in Normandy, France. It is not clear wh ...

(1485-1555) French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in

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* Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005) comic book artist *

Evelina Coelho Maria Evelina Coelho Martins da Fonseca (23 May 1945- 26 November 2013), whose artistic name was Evelina Coelho, was a Portuguese painter, from Vila Fernando, Guarda, Portugal. Biographical notes She was born in Vila Fernando, Guarda, Portugal, a ...

(1945–2013), painter * José Dias Coelho (1923-1961) *

Jorge Colaço Jorge Colaço (26 February 1868 - 23 August 1942) was a Portuguese painter specially known for his works as tile (''azulejo'') painter. Jorge Colaço was born in Tangier, Morocco, the son of a Portuguese diplomat. He studied art in Lisbon, Madrid ...

(1868-1942) *

João Cutileiro João Cutileiro OSE (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble. Life Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of mo ...

(born 1937), sculptor especially of women's torsos in

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António Dacosta António Dacosta (3 November 1914 – 2 December 1990) was a Portuguese painter, poet and art critic and a pioneer of the surrealist movement in Portugal. Early life Dacosta was born in Angra do Heroísmo and grew up on Terceira island, in the ...

(1914-1990) * Francisco Coelho Maduro Dias (1904-1986), painter and sculptor * Carlos Domingomes (born 1980) *

Juno Doran Juno Doran is a visual and sound artist based in North Dorset, United Kingdom. Life and work Juno Doran is a visual and sound artist based in the UK. She was born in 1966 in Abrantes, Portugal, and moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1992. Selec ...

(born 1966)

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Mário Eloy Mário Eloy (15 March 1900 in Algés – 5 September 1951 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese expressionist painter. Eloy was born in Lisbon. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist ...

(1900-1951)

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Garcia Fernandes Garcia Fernandes (died ''c.'' 1565) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. Like many of painters of the time, Garcia Fernandes was a pupil in the Lisbon workshop of Jorge Afonso, who was the court painter of King Manuel I. In the 1530s he worked ...

(died c. 1565) * Vasco Fernandes (1474-1541) *

Cristóvão de Figueiredo Cristóvão de Figueiredo (died ) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. Like many other important painters of the time, Cristóvão de Figueiredo was a pupil of Master Jorge Afonso, in Lisbon, in the early 16th century. He later worked together wi ...

(1449-1539)

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* Luis Geraldes (born 1957) *

Nuno Gonçalves Nuno Gonçalves (c. 1425 – c. 1491, ''fl.'' 1450–71) was a Portuguese artist whose work initiated the Portuguese Renaissance in painting. He was court painter for Afonso V of Portugal from 1450 to 1471, and in 1471 he was appointed the offici ...

(fl. 1450-1471)

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* Hazul, graffiti artist *

Francisco Henriques Francisco Henriques (died 1518) was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Portugal in the early 16th century. Born and raised in Amsterdam, he studied in Bruges, where he passed a degree in painting at the University of Groningen. He then went ...

(died 1518) *

João Hogan João Manuel Navarro Hogan (4 February 1914 in Lisbon – 16 June 1988 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and printmaker. Early life João Navarro Hogan was the grandson of Ricardo Hogan and nephew of the painter Álvaro Navarro Hogan. ...

(1914-1988) *

Francisco de Holanda Francisco de Holanda (originally ''Francisco d'Olanda;'' 6 September 1517 – 19 June 1585) was a Portuguese court painter and sculptor for King John III of Portugal, and later for Sebastian of Portugal. He wrote what is regarded as the first treat ...

(1517-1585), Renaissance humanist and painter

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* Josefa de Óbidos (ca. 1630-1684) *

Ana Jotta Ana Jotta is a Portuguese artist born in 1946 in Lisbon. Early life Ana Jotta studied art at ESBAL – Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon) and at La Cambre in Brussels. From 1976 to 1979 Jotta was an actress and a decorator for cinema a ...

(born 1946)

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Alfredo Keil Alfredo Cristiano Keil (3 July 1850 – 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese romantic composer and painter. Keil was born in Lisbon, the son of Johann Christian Keil (son of Johann Georg Keil and wife Elisabeth ...) and wife (m. Lisbon, 30 A ...

(1850-1907) * Kim Prisu (born 1962)

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* Fernando Lanhas (1923-2012) *

António Teixeira Lopes António Teixeira Lopes (27 October 1866–21 June 1942) was a Portuguese sculptor. Life Teixeira Lopes was the son of sculptor José Joaquim Teixeira Lopes and started learning his art in his father's workshop. In 1882 he entered the Academ ...

, (1866-1942), sculptor *

Cristóvão Lopes Cristóvão Lopes (c.1516–1594) was a Portuguese painter. Cristóvão Lopes was the son and disciple of royal painter Gregório Lopes, who died in 1550. Cristóvão succeeded his father as the royal painter of King John III in 1551. Since ...

(c. 1516-1594) *

Gregório Lopes Gregório Lopes (''c.'' 1490 – 1550) was one of the most important Renaissance painters from Portugal. Gregório Lopes was educated in the workshop of Jorge Afonso, the court painter of King Manuel I. Later he himself became court painter f ...

(1489-1549) * Cristobal López (c. 1516-1594) *

Miguel Ângelo Lupi Miguel Ângelo Lupi (8 May 1826–26 February 1883) was a Portuguese painter and art professor, who worked in the Romantic style. He was known primarily for portraits and historical scenes. Biography His father was an immigrant from Italy.

(1826-1883)

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António Macedo Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

realist painter Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not ...

(1954) *

Joaquim Machado de Castro Joaquim Machado de Castro (19 June 1731 – 17 November 1822) was one of Portugal's foremost sculptors. He wrote extensively on his works and the theory behind them, including a full-length discussion of the statue of King Joseph I entitled ' ...

- sculptor, writer, teacher (1731-1822) * Diogo Machado (born 1980) -

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

& street artist *

José Malhoa José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa (28 April 1855 – 26 October 1933) was a Portuguese painter. Malhoa was, with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting in the second half of the ...

(1855-1933) *

Abel Manta Abel Manta (12 October 1888 in Gouveia Municipality, Portugal, Gouveia – 9 August 1982 in Lisbon) was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist. Between 1904 and 1916 attended the school of Fine Arts, completed the course in pa ...

(1928-1982) *

João Abel Manta João Abel Manta (29 January 1928 in Lisbon) is a Portugal, Portuguese Architecture, architect, Painting, painter, Illustration, illustrator and cartoonist. Biography João Abel Manta is the son of the painters Abel Manta and Maria Clementina C ...

(1928-1982) *

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 ...

(1853-1927) *

Henrique Medina Henrique Medina de Barros (18 August 1901, in Porto – 30 November 1988) was a Portuguese painter, better known as a portraitist. Career In 1919, he interrupted his studies in the Fine Arts School of Porto (Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Por ...

(1901-1988) * Albuquerque Mendes (born 1953) * Jorge Melício (born 1957)

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José de Almada Negreiros José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (7 April 1893 – 15 June 1970) was a Portuguese artist. He was born in the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and a Santomean mothe ...

(1893–1970) *

Sá Nogueira Rolando Sá Nogueira, (Lisbon, May 19, 1921 – November 18, 2002), was one of the most important painters of his generation; according to José Augusto França, he belongs to the third wave of 20th Century modern Portuguese painters Biography / ...

(1921–2002)

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* Abigail de Paiva Cruz (1883-1944) * António Palolo (1946-2000) *

Artur Pastor Artur Pastor (1 May 1922 in Alter do Chão – 17 September 1999 in Lisbon), was a Portuguese photographer. Exhibitions He individually held 14 photography exhibitions with focus on the one that took place at Foz Palace in 1970 with 360 pieces ...

(1922-1999), photographer *

António Pedro António Pedro da Costa (9 December 1909, in Portuguese Cape Verde, Santiago, Praia – 17 August 1966, in Caminha, Moledo, Portugal) was a Portuguese painter, potter, journalist and writer. Biography He was born to a prominent colonial family f ...

(1909-1966) *

Manuel Pereira da Silva 200px, Manuel Pereira da Silva Manuel Pereira da Silva (7 December 1920 – 2003) was a Portuguese sculptor. He was born in Avintes, Portugal. The workmanship of Manuel Pereira da Silva has an abstract formal orientation inspired in the huma ...

(1920-2003), sculptor *

Álvaro Perdigão Álvaro Perdigão (22 May 1910 – 10 March 1994) was a Portuguese painter. Biography Álvaro Perdigão was born in May 1910, in the same year of the establishment of the Portuguese Republic. In Setubal, a small town 50 km to the south of ...

(1910-1994) *

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Almada, 21 November 1857 – Lisbon, 6 November 1929), who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter. Usually considered the greatest Portuguese painter of the 19th century, he has been c ...

(1857-1929) * Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, (1846-1905), known for illustrations, caricatures, sculpture and ceramics designs, and is considered the first Portuguese

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Júlio Pomar Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM (10 January 1926 – 22 May 2018) was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was often considered the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation. Early life and career (1940s and 1950s) Pomar first ...

(1926-2018) *

Henrique Pousão Henrique César de Araújo Pousão (Vila Viçosa, 1 January 1859 - Vila Viçosa, 20 March 1884) was a Portuguese painter. Life Henrique Pousão was the son of a judge, from a wealthy family of Alentejo. His early talent manifested at the age ...

(1859-1884) * Pedro Portugal (born 1963) * Kim Prisu (born 1962)

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Paula Rego Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game ''EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a si ...

(born 1935) *

Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca Menez or Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca, GOSE (9 September 1926, in Lisbon – 11 April 1995) was a Portuguese painter. Her major body of work consists of paintings and drawings but she also produced ceramics, engravings, silk-screen prints an ...

(1926-1995) * Rigo 23 (born 1966) *

José Rodrigues José Rodrigues de Carvalho (16 July 1828 – 19 October 1887) was a Portuguese painter. '' O Pobre Rabequista'' (''The poor rabequista''), painted in 1855 and considered Rodriques' most famous work, was first shown in Paris at the Universal Ex ...

(1828-1887) *

Carlos Roque Carlos Roque (April 12, 1936 - July 27, 2006) was a Portuguese comics artist. Roque was born in Lisbon. He began publishing in 1959, in the Portuguese comic ''Camarada''. Roque relocated to Belgium in 1964, where he found extensive work in the Be ...

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comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...

(1936-2006)

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* José María Sá Lemos (1892–1971), sculptor * Abel Salazar (1889-1946) *

Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (Barto) (24 August 1931 – 21 May 2008) was a Portuguese artist and professor who specialized in the plastic arts, with an emphasis on printmaking and engravings. Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos was born in Lisbon, Portugal, ...

(1931-2008), artist and professor who specialized in the

plastic arts Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics. Less often the term may be used broadly for all the visual arts (such as painting, sculpture, film and pho ...

with an emphasis on

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Julião Sarmento Julião Manuel Tavares Sena Sarmento (4 November 1948 – 4 May 2021) was a Portuguese multimedia artist and painter. Biography / Work Born in Lisbon in 1948, Sarmento studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He be ...

(1948–2021) * Domingos Sequeira (1768-1837) *

António Carvalho de Silva Porto António Carvalho da Silva (11 November 1850 – 1 June 1893), known as Silva Porto, was a Portuguese people, Portuguese naturalist painter. Biography Born in Porto, he studied there under João António Correia and Tadeu de Almeida Furtado, ...

(1850-1893) *

João Artur da Silva João Artur da Silva is a Portuguese born artist and photographer currently living in British Columbia, Canada. Biography João Artur Cordeiro Da Silva was born October 5th, 1928 in Cascais, Portugal to Alfredo Lopes Da Silva, a businessman, a ...

(1928-) *

António Soares dos Reis António Manuel Soares dos Reis (Vila Nova de Gaia, 14 October 1847 - Vila Nova de Gaia, 16 February 1889) was a Portuguese sculptor. Studies He first studied at the Portuense Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in sculpture in 1867. He st ...

(1847-1889), sculptor *

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (14 November 1887 – 25 October 1918) was a Portuguese painter. Belonging to the first generation of Portuguese modernist painters, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso stands out among all of them for the exceptional quality of h ...

(1887-1918) * Aurélia de Souza (1865-1922) *

Sofia Martins de Sousa Sofia Martins de Sousa (March 23, 1870 – November 28, 1960) was a Portuguese painter. Biography She was born in Porto, Portugal, the youngest of seven children to Portuguese emigrants António Martins de Sousa and Olinda Peres. The family liv ...

(1870-1960)

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* Toonman (born 1975) *

Pedro Tudela Pedro Tudela (born 1962 in Viseu, Portugal) is a Portuguese artist. As a student, he co-founded the Missionary Group (Grupo Missionário), where he collaborated from 1981 to 1987. In 1992, on the occasion of the exhibition "Mute... life", he fo ...

(born 1962)

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Joana Vasconcelos Joana Vasconcelos (born 1971) is a Portuguese artist known for her large-scale installations. Biography Vasconcelos was born in 1971 in Paris, France. Her family returned home to Portugal after their exile to France and following the Carnation ...

(born 1971) *

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos or Mário Cesariny (August 9, 1923 – November 26, 2006) was a Portuguese surrealist poet and painter. He published several major works of poetry during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but hi ...

(1923-2006) *

Marcelino Vespeira Marcelino Macedo Vespeira (Samouco, Alcochete, 9 September 1925- Lisbon, 22 February 2002) was a Portuguese painter and graphic artist. A leading figure in the surrealist movement in Portugal, Vespeira built a long and diversified work. It emerged ...

(1925-2002) *

Eduardo Viana Eduardo Afonso Viana (28 November 1881, in Lisbon, Portugal – 21 February 1967, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter. He was one of the members of the first modern generation in Portuguese painting, like Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and Almada Negr ...

(1881-1967) *

Vieira Portuense Francisco Vieira (13 May 1765 – 2 May 1805), who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting. He was, in the neoclassical style, one of the two great Po ...

(1765-1805) *

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (13 June 1908 – 6 March 1992) was a Portuguese abstract painter. She was considered a leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and ...

(1907-1992) {{Artists by nationality

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