Self portrait, oil on canvas, undated

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Lisbon, 21 November 1857- Lisbon 6 November 1929), who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese painter. District or region Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Events Roman Empire Revolt of the Aedui under Julius Florus and Julius Sacrovir, supressed by Gaius Silius Tiberius is a Roman Consul for the fourth time. ... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... District or region Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Life and work

He was the son of a mediocre romantic painter, Manuel Maria Bordalo Pinheiro, and the younger brother of the great caricaturist, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March 1846 - 23 January 1905) was a Portuguese artist known for his painting, caricatures and sculpture. ...

Manuel Gustavo, oil on wood, 1884

The Lion Group, oil on canvas, 1885

He became the leading painter of his generation and the master of realism in Portuguese painting, specializing in portraiture. He was disciple of his father, Lupi and Simões de Almeida, portuguese acquainted painters of the time. After attempting twice for a bursar to study abroad finally in 1881 the countess of Edla, second wife of D.Fernando would finace his study in France.There he studied the work of Manet, Degas and Courbet without losing his distinctive style which is often gloomy and intimist. He joined the "Grupo do Leão"(The Lion Group), a usual meeting of artists, writers and intellectual in a Lisbon downtown restaurant called "Leão de Ouro"(The Gold Lion) in order to discuss aesthetic issues and proclaim Naturalism against the academic art of the time. He painted portraits of some of the greatest names of Portuguese society and culture of his time like Teófilo Braga and had great phsichological 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. Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... Édouard Manet - 19th century French painter Mobile_ad-hoc_network - A self configuring wireless network This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 - September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. ... Gustave Courbet (portrait by Nadar) Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 - December 31, 1877) was a French painter. ... Naturalism refers to a number of different topics: Naturalism (philosophy) is any of several philosophical stances which do not claim that phenomena or hypotheses commonly labeled as supernatural necessarily do not exist or are wrong, but insist that they are not inherently different from natural phenomena or hypotheses, and that... Teófilo Braga Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga, commonly known as Teófilo Braga (Ponta Delgada, Azores, February 24, 1843-Lisbon, January 28, 1924), was a Portuguese politician, writer and playwright. ... Antero de Quental, old spelling Anthero,(April 18, 1842 - September 11, Portuguese poet, was born on São Miguel Island, in the Azores. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

After the Republic proclamation, in 1910, he designed the flag of the new regime and became director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Lisbon. The best collection of his paintings is in the Chiado Museum, in Lisbon. 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... District or region Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ...