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almeidajr
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 141 X 172 cm
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Apostolo Sao Paulo
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Apostolo_Sao_Paulo
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97 X 77 cm
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Bust of a Man
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Bust_of_a_Man
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 75.5 X 60 cm
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Caipiras Negaceando
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Caipiras_Negaceando
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 281 X 215 cm
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Ezequiel Freire
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Ezequiel_Freire
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 55 X 40 cm
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Almeida_Junior
(8 May 1850 ?C 13 November 1899) was a Brazilian painter of the 19th century. He is widely regarded as the most important Brazilian realist painter of the 19th century, and a major inspiration for the modernist painters. While most Brazilian academic artists made their fame painting mythological or historical subjects, Almeida Junior would become popular for painting rural figures, especially farmers and the caipira, the countrymen that are a kind of a symbol of the rural areas of the São Paulo state.
While most realist painters used farmers and countrymen as an allegory of workers, Almeida Junior would paint his caipiras mostly on leisure time. He would also produce touching images of upscale landowners. The Bandeirantes, the ruthless explorers of colonial Brazil, would be depicted in the A partida da monção, showing an expedition on the Tiet?? River.
Almeida Junior was born in the city of Itu, then a small town in the state of São Paulo. After becoming a sensation in his town he would be invited to study in the Brazilian Imperial Fine Arts Academy of Rio de Janeiro, but in 1876 would study in France after being granted a scholarship by emperor Pedro II of Brazil in person in the city of Moji-Mirim. He would have Alexandre Cabanel as one of his masters.
He admired the French realist and naturalist painting (a major influence at his work), and, after returning to Brazil in 1882, became of the leading names in Brazilian realist painting.
He was stabbed to death by the husband of his mistress on November 13, 1899 in Piracicaba.
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