Veloso Salgado

Veloso Salgado
Self-portrait (1931), by Veloso Salgado National Academy of Fine Arts, Lisbon
Born	(1864-04-02)2 April 1864 Melón, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
Died	22 July 1945(1945-07-22) (aged 81) Lisbon, Portugal
Resting place	Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon
Nationality	Portuguese
Spouse	Vitorina de Silva Mello (m.1896)

José Maria Veloso Salgado (2 April 1864 – 22 July 1945) was a Galician-born Portuguese artist. He is regarded as one of the country's foremost masters of Naturalism with many distinguished works in historical painting, landscapes, and portraits.

Biography

José Maria Veloso Salgado was born in Galicia (Spain), in Melón (a small town in the province of Ourense, not far from the Portuguese border), where he lived until the age of 10. He was the son of two farmers, José Pérez and Dolores Veloso Rodrigues Salgado. In 1874, his parents sent him to live with his maternal uncle, Miguel Veloso Rodrigues Salgado, who ran a lithography workshop (Litografia Lemos) in Lisbon, Portugal. Veloso Salgado started working as an apprentice at his uncle's workshop.

From 1878 to 1880, he attended evening classes for workers at the School of the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, and was approved with distinction. Encouraged by his results, he started attending normal evening classes in 1881 and, in the end of his first year, he won an award of 20-thousand réis. He then started daytime classes, where he studied under José Simões de Almeida and José Ferreira Chaves who taught Drawing and Painting, respectively; he achieved top marks in both classes.

In 1884, he had presented two works on the 13th exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (Sociedade Promotora de Belas Artes), achieving an honorable mention, and, in 1887, he also participated on the 14th exhibition. In 1887, Veloso Salgado finished his studies with a final grade of 17 out of 20; that same year, he became a naturalized Portuguese citizen.^[1] All these achievements allowed him to get a state scholarship to pursue further studies in Paris.

In 1888, Veloso Salgado rented an atelier in

He returned to Lisbon in 1895 and, in December of that year, was made interim professor of History Painting in the School of Fine Arts; two years later he was chosen over

In 1901, following an artistic education reform, he started teaching History Painting alongside Columbano.

In 1896, he married Vitorina de Silva Mello, goddaughter and protégée of painter José Ferreira Chaves. The marriage produced two offspring: José Miguel Veloso Salgado (born 1896), and Maria Adelina Veloso Salgado (born 1899). When Ferreira Chaves's widow died in 1903, Veloso Salgado inherited most of her assets.

Veloso Salgado retired from painting in 1940, at age 76, and died five years later, in 1945.

Gallery

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  Portrait of sculptor Teixeira Lopes in his atelier in Paris (1889), Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes
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  Vasco da Gama before the Zamorin of Calicut (1898), Lisbon Geographic Society
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  King Denis of Portugal Administers Justice (1899), Stock Exchange Palace
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  Portuguese Medicine (1906),

  NOVA Medical School
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  The Suffrage (1913), Pimenta Palace
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  Detail of The Constituent Courts of 1821 (1921), Portuguese Parliament
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  Youth (1923), José Malhoa Museum
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  The Motherland Crowning its Heroes (1904), Military Museum of Lisbon.
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  Portrait of a Lady (1917)
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  Feminine Figure in the Garden (1917)
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  Math (1917), University of Porto.
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  Physical-Natural Sciences (1917), University of Porto.

Notes and references

Bibliography

• Saraiva, José Hermano (2004). "Dicionário de personalidades: Redinha a Silva". História de Portugal (in Portuguese). Vol. 19. QuidNovi.
  ISBN 989-554-124-4
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• "José Maria Veloso Salgado (1864-1945)". sigarra.up.pt (in Portuguese). University of Oporto. Retrieved 2017-10-16.