Domingos Sequeira

Domingos de Sequeira, actually Domingos Antonio do Espirito Santo ( born March 10, 1768 in Santa Maria de Belem / 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 of Portuguese art history.

Life

He is born in 1768 into a poor family and attended an early school of artists. In 1782 he takes the name " de Sequeira " as the artist name. In 1788 he lived in Rome, to study and in 1793 a teacher at the Academia di San Luca. In 1795 he returned to Lisbon and went for three years in a monastery, because he suffered from depression. 1802 was his official appointment as First Court Painter. So he painted King John VI. In 1823 he was forced to emigrate due to advocacy of revolutionary democratic ideas to Paris in 1826, he returned to Rome. 1832 finally he had to give up due to illness painting. He created a panel work, which was presented to the Duke of Wellington in recognition of his services to Portugal.

Work

Especially portraits belonged to the subject of the painter, to images that King John VI. show. However, images with national or religious themes in his oeuvre take up a large space. His main works Adoration of the Magi, The Ascension of Christ and the Last Judgment are in the collection of the Duke of Palmela.