João Cristino da Silva (14 July 1829,

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- 12 May 1877, Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and illustrator in the Romantic style.

Biography

He was born into a merchant family and began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of the

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in 1841, but was known for being temperamental, taking issue with his instructor,

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, and the school's teaching methods, so he left in 1847 without completing his courses.Biographical notes and more paintings
@ Com Jeito e Arte. From 1847 to 1849 he worked as an engraver at the "Arsenal do Exército" (Army Arsenal). He then returned to painting. Soon he began to exhibit, in Paris and Madrid as well as Portugal. He was mainly known as a landscape painter and often worked with

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, who he considered to be his true teacher. At the

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, he exhibited what is probably his best-known work "Cinco Artistas em Sintra" (Five Artists at Sintra), which was later purchased by King Ferdinand II. After a showing in Madrid, he was knighted by King

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. In 1860, he became a substitute Professor at the Academy, but abandoned the post in 1867 because of continuing disagreements with the administration. That year, he received a travel subsidy; visiting France and Switzerland. He also collaborated in providing illustrations for the weekly magazine ', which was published from 1857 to 1868. He became mentally unbalanced and died of heart failure in the psychiatric hospital at the .

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* ''João Cristino da Silva e o tema da paisagem na literatura portuguesa de meados do século XIX'' (Silva and the landscape theme in mid-nineteenth century Portuguese literature) by Helena Carvalhão Buescu at the University of Lisbo

An album of sketches by Silva
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Silva, Joao Cristino da 1829 births 1877 deaths Artists from Lisbon Portuguese landscape painters 19th-century Portuguese painters 19th-century Portuguese male artists Portuguese male painters 19th-century Portuguese illustrators Portuguese magazine illustrators

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