Manuel Maria Bordalo Pinheiro
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Manuel Maria Bordalo Pinheiro | |
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 Portrait of his father by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro | |
| Born | 28 November 1815 |
| Died | 31 January 1880 (aged 64) |
| Awards | Order of Charles III of Spain |
Manuel Maria Bordalo Pinheiro (1815–1880) was a Portuguese painter, engraver, sculptor, and poet, credited with the revival of woodcuts in the country. He served as the first officer of the secretariat of the Chamber of Peers of Portugal and was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was the father of the artists, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Maria Augusta Bordalo Pinheiro.[1][2]
Bordalo Pinheiro was born on 28 November 1815 in Santa Justa, Lisbon. He was the son of Manuel Félix de Oliveira Pinheiro (1774–1845), First President of the Lisbon Lawyers' Association, and of Jacinta Adelaide Herculana de Almeida Bordalo Alvarez y Asturias (1779–1839). In 1833, he joined up as a volunteer for the Liberal cause during the War of the Two Brothers, a fact that he later spoke of with some pride. He began an artistic apprenticeship in 1840 and was a disciple of the painter António Manuel da Fonseca, the miniaturist Luís Pereira de Resende, and the sculptor Feliciano José Lopes. In 1840 he married Augusta Maria do Ó de Carvalho Prostes in Lisbon, with whom he had 9 children.[1][2][3]
