Almeida Júnior
(1851–1899) brasiliansk målare
Almeida Júnior (Brazil, 1851–1899) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Almeida Júnior belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Almeida Júnior was born in Itu and died in Piracicaba. Almeida Júnior trained at Academia Imperial de Belas Artes. Wikidata associates Almeida Júnior with realism. Almeida Júnior was awarded Imperial Order of the Rose.
The best-known works include ‘The Model's Rest’, ‘A Conversão de São Paulo a Caminho de Damasco’, ‘Interrupted Whetting’, and ‘Monção departing’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 106 works by Almeida Júnior with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1944. Works by Almeida Júnior are held by several collections, among them Pinakoteket i São Paulo, Museu Paulista collection, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, and Museu Nacional de Belas Artes.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Ernst Josephson, Charles Sprague Pearce, Gustav Schönleber, William Lionel Wyllie, and George Mosson.