Domingos de Sequeira

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Allegory of the virtues of King John VI. by Domingos de Sequeira (around 1800)

Domingos de Sequeira , actually Domingos Antonio do Espirito Santo (born March 10, 1768 in Santa Maria de Belém / Lisbon, † March 7, 1837 in Rome ) was a Portuguese painter, etcher and lithographer of the 18th and 19th centuries. He is considered one of the most important painters in Portuguese art history.

Life

He was born into a poor family in 1768 and attended an art school at an early age. In 1782 he adopted the name " de Sequeira " as his stage name. In 1788 he lived in Rome to study and in 1793 became a teacher at the Academia di San Luca . In 1795 he returned to Lisbon and went to a monastery for three years because he suffered from depression . In 1802 he was officially appointed First Court Painter . So he painted King John VI . In 1823 he had to emigrate to Paris for advocating revolutionary democratic ideas , and in 1826 he returned to Rome . In 1832 he finally had to give up painting due to illness. He created a table that was given to the Duke of Wellington in recognition of his services to Portugal .

plant

Johann VI. from Portugal

Portraits in particular were part of the painter's subject, right through to pictures that King John VI. demonstrate. But pictures with national or religious themes also occupy a large place in his oeuvre . His main works, Adoration of the Magi , Ascension of Christ and Last Judgment are in the collection of the Duke of Palmela .

literature

  • Maria Alice Mourisca Beaumont: Domingos Antonio de Sequeira-Desenhos. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon 1975.
  • Alexandra Curvelo, Petra Kruse (ed.): Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. [on the occasion of the exhibition The Great Collections VIII. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon from March 26 to July 11, 1999 in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn]. Exhibition catalog. Bonn 1999, DNB 956420842 .

Web links

Commons : Domingos de Sequeira  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolf Stadler among others: Lexicon of Art 11th Sem - Tot. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Sequeira, Domingos de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES do Espirito Santo, Domingos Antonio (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese painter, etcher and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Maria de Belém , Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1837
Place of death Rome