Domingos Sequeira

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Domingos Sequeira
File:Domingos sequeira.jpg
Self-Portrait by Domingos Sequeira
Born Domingos António de Sequeira
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10 March 1768
Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died 8 March 1837
Rome, Papal States
Nationality Portuguese
Known for Fine Painting
Movement Neoclassicism

Domingos António de Sequeira (Lisbon ; 10 March 1768 - Rome; 8 March 1837) was a famous Portuguese painter at the Royal Court of King John VI of Portugal.

Biography

He was born in Belém, Lisbon, into a modest family. He later changed his family name from Espírito Santo to the more aristocratic Sequeira. He studied art first at the academy of Lisbon, before moving to Rome, where he was Antonio Cavallucci`s pupil.

By the age of thirteen, he had evinced such marked talent that F. de Setubal employed him as an assistant in his work for the João Ferreiras Palace. Sequeira resided in Rome from 1788 to 1794, when he was made honorary member of the Academy of St Luke. After another two years and further study in Italy, he returned to his native country with such a great reputation that important commissions for churches and palaces were immediately entrusted to him: scriptural subjects, large historical compositions and cabinet pictures.[1]

In 1802, he was appointed first court painter and, in this role, executed many works for the prince regent, for Dona Maria Teresa, and for members of the court. He designed the valuable silver service which was presented by the Portuguese nation to Wellington,[2] and a monument that was erected in 1820 in the Rossio square at Lisbon.[1] 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", which was considered by many to be 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 exposition in the late 1820s, that served as inspiration for some of his best paintings, like the "Adoração dos Magos" (1828). He died in Rome in 1837.[1]

Works

Among his best-known pictures are the Miracle of Ourique, Prince John Reviewing the Troops at Azumbuja, and The Adoration of the Magi.[1] Numerous paintings by Sequeira are held at the Mafra National Palace, the Ajuda National Palace, and in the principal palaces and churches of Lisbon. The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (National Museum of Ancient Art), in Lisbon, has one of the best collections of his paintings.

Gallery

  • Alegoria da Fundação da Casa Pia de Belém.jpg

    Alegoria à Fundação da Casa Pia, 1792-1794 (Musee du Louvre)

  • O Milagre de Ourique, 1793 (Musée Louis-Philippe)

  • Domingos Sequeira - Pregação de S. João Baptista, 1793.png

    Pregação de S. João Baptista, 1793 (Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa)

  • Deuses no Olimpo (1794) - Domingos Sequeira.png

    Deuses no Olimpo, 1794

  • Última Comunhão de Santa Maria Madalena (c. 1800) - Domingos Sequeira (1768-1837).png

    Última Comunhão de Santa Maria Madalena, c. 1800

  • Príncipe Regente, João, 1802 (Ajuda National Palace)

  • O Príncipe Regente passando revista às tropas na Azambuja, 1803 (Queluz National Palace)

  • Sequeira junot1.jpg

    Junot protegendo a cidade de Lisboa, 1808 (Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis)

  • João Baptista Verde e Mariana Benedita.jpg

    João Baptista Verde e Mariana Benedita, 1809 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

  • Alegoria às virtudes de D. João VI, 1810 (Queluz National Palace)

  • Domingos Sequeira - Lisboa protegendo os seus habitantes, 1812.png

    Lisboa protegendo os seus habitantes, 1812 (Pimenta Palace)

  • Conde de Farrobo - Domingos Sequeira.jpg

    O Conde de Farrobo, 1813 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

  • D. Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1.º Duque de Palmela

  • Retrato da Família do 1.º Visconde de Santarém (1816) - Domingos Sequeira.png

    Família do Visconde de Santarém, 1816 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

  • Retrato Equestre de D. Carlota Joaquina, 1817 (Museu Imperial)

  • Domingos Sequeira - Portugal à beira do abismo, 1820.png

    Portugal à beira do abismo, 1820

  • D. João VI, 1821

  • Família Barros.jpg

    A Família Barros, 1822

  • Domingos Sequeira - Mariana Benedita Sequeira.jpg

    Mariana Benedita Sequeira, 1822 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

  • Adrião Ribeiro Neves.jpg

    Adrião Ribeiro Neves, 1825 (Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology)

  • A Adoração dos Magos (1828) - Domingos Sequeira.png

    Adoração dos Magos, 1828

  • Coroação da Virgem, c. 1830 (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

  • Tobias cura a cegueira de seu pai, S.D.

  • Jesus é despojado das Suas vestes - Domingos Sequeira.png

    Jesus é despojado das Suas vestes, S.D.

  • Condes de Linhares - Domingos Sequeira.png

    Retrato dos Condes de Linhares, S.D.

  • Nossa Senhora das Dores, S.D.

References

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Palácio Nacional da Ajuda - www.palacioajuda.pt

Sources

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