Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro ( born November 21, 1857 in Lisbon, † November 6, 1929 ) was a Portuguese painter of realism, specializing in portraiture.

Life

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro was the son of the painter Manuel Maria Bordalo Pinheiro and the younger brother of the great cartoonist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro ( 1846-1905 ). He took his first drawing lessons from his father, who advised him strongly to continue their studies with the painter Ângelo Miguel Lupi and the sculptor Simões de Almeida. With a scholarship from the Countess de Edla Pinheiro was allowed to travel to France in 1881 to study in Paris under the most famous artists of the city, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Gustave Courbet.

In the spring of 1887 Pinheiro was one of the founding members of the literary circle in the restaurant Leão de Ouro, called Grupo do Leão, a loose group of journalists, writers, painters and actors.

Pinheiro was a member of the government commission, which decided after the introduction of the Republic on the new national flag of Portugal. She was elected on 1 December 1910 and is still in use today.