Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro | |
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Chiado Museum, Lisbon | |
| Born | Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro 21 November 1857 |
| Died | 6 November 1929 (aged 71) |
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 compared to the likes of Wilhelm Leibl and John Singer Sargent.
Life and work
Columbano was born in
realism in Portuguese painting, specializing in portraiture. He was disciple of his father, of the painter Miguel Ângelo Lupi and the sculptor Simões de Almeida. After attempting twice for a bursar to study abroad finally in 1881 the Countess of Edla, second wife of King Ferdinand II would finance his study in France. There he studied the work of French naturalist, realist and impressionist painters, like Courbet, Manet and Degas
without losing his distinctive style which is often gloomy and intimist.
He was the co-founder of the "Grupo do Leão" (The Lion's Group),Silva Porto, Marques de Oliveira and José Malhoa.
He painted portraits of some of the greatest names of Portuguese society and culture of his time like
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Teófilo Braga, Raul Brandão and had great psychological accuracy in defining the personality of those depicted. His most famous portrait was that of the poet Antero de Quental
in 1889. In this haunting work Columbano seems to have anticipated Antero's suicide.
Columbano was a well known Republican, so it wasn't surprising that after the
Chiado Museum, in Lisbon
, of which he was in charge from 1914 to 1927.
The best collection of his paintings is in the
National Museum Soares dos Reis
, in Porto.
Selected portraits
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Antero de Quental (1889) -
Manuel Gustavo Bordalo Pinheiro (1884) -
Teófilo Braga (1917) -
Manuel de Arriaga (c.1912)
References
- ^ ISBN 0-900-94682-2.
External links
Media related to Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro at Wikimedia Commons- Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro - at Google Arts & Culture
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