Domingos António de Sequeira ( Lisbon, 10 March,1768 - Rome, 8 March, 1837), was a Portuguese painter, born in Belém, Lisbon, from a modest family. He latter changed his family name, Espírito Santo, for the more aristocratic, Sequeira. He studied art first at the academy of Lisbon, before moving to Rome, were he was Antonio Cavallucci`s pupil. 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BCE mythical, 1st millennium BCE Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2005)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 3. ... Antonio Cavallucci (1752-1795) was an barroque Italian painter of the 18 th century. ...

By the age of thirteen he had evinced such marked talent that F. de Setubal employed him as assistant in his work for the João Ferreiras Palace. Sequeira sojourned in Rome from 1788 to 1794, when he was made honorary member of the Academy of St Luke. After another two years and study in Italy, he returned to his native country preceded by so great a reputation that important commissions for churches and palaces were immediately entrusted to himscriptural subjects, large historical compositions and cabinet pictures. Accademia di San Luca, (the Academy of Saint Luke) was founded in Rome in 1593, with the ostensible purpose of giving artists a higher education and the real one of asserting the Churchs control over art, according to Peter Robb, biographer of the pivotal Baroque artist Caravaggio. ...

In 1802 he was appointed first court painter, in which capacity he executed many works for the prince regent, for Donna Maria Teresa, and for the members of the court. He designed the valuable silver service which was presented by the Portuguese nation to Wellington, and a monument that was erected in 1820 in the Rossio square at Lisbon. In 1823 he visited Paris, where he is known to have tried his skill in lithography and etching. In 1825, he painted the "Death of Camões", by many considered the first proto-romantic or romantic portuguese painting. The last years of his life he spent in Rome, devoting himself chiefly to devotional subjects and to his duties as head of the Portuguese Academy. He saw a Turner exposicion in the late 1820`s, that inspired him some of his best paintings, like the "Adoração dos Magos" (1828). He died in Rome in 1837. --69. ... The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. ... Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. ...

Among their best-known pictures are the "Flight into Egypt," "Ugolino," the "St Bruno at Prayer" at the Lisbon Academy, and the "Descent from the Cross." Numerous paintings by Sequeira are in the royal palace at Mafra, the convent of Laveinas, the new palace of Ajuda, and in the principal palaces and churches of Lisbon. The National Museum of Ancient Art, in Lisbon, as one of the best colections of his paintings. District Lisbon Mayor   - Party José Maria Ministro dos Santos PSD Area 291. ... Ajuda is a Portuguese parish (freguesia) in the municipality (concelho) of Lisbon with 3. ...

Bibliography : José-Augusto França, "A Arte em Portugal no Século XIX", Lisboa, Bertrand Editora, 1991, volume 1.

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