This is a list of artists from, or associated with

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. Artists are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

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Jorge Afonso Jorge Afonso (''c.'' 1470 – 1540) was an important Portuguese Renaissance painter. Jorge Afonso was nominated royal painter in 1508 by King Manuel I and again in 1529 by John III. He was mainly based in Lisbon, with a workshop near the Igre ...

(c. 1470-1540) *

Nadir Afonso Nadir Afonso, GOSE (4 December 1920 – 11 December 2013) was a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studi ...

(1920-2013) * Filipe Alarcão (born 1963), designer * Francisco Keil do Amaral (1910-1975) * Helena Almeida (1934-2018) *

Sofia Areal Sofia Areal (born in Lisbon, 4 June 1960) is a Portuguese abstract painter, whose works adhere mostly to organic non-geometrical forms and a strong chromatic focus. Besides painting and drawing, Areal's work involves collage, textile design, and s ...

(born 1960)

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Carlos Botelho Carlos Botelho (18 September 1899, in Lisbon – 18 August 1982, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, comics artist, political cartoonist, satirist and caricaturist, whose works are shown at the Chiado Museum and at the Mode ...

(1899-1982) * Manuel Botelho (born 1950) * Joao de Brito (born 1958), Portuguese-American artist, oil painter and sculptor

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* Pedro Calapez (born 1953) * Fernando Calhau (1948-2002) * Nuno de Campos (1969-) * Manuel Carmo (1958-2015) * António Carneiro (1872-1930) * João Carqueijeiro (1954-), plastic artist *

Nicolau Chanterene Nicolau Chantereine (also called Nicolas Chanterenne or Nicolas de Chanterenne) (c.1485 – 1551) was a French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain. It is assumed that he was born in Normandy, France. It is not clear wh ...

(1485-1555) French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in

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* Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005) comic book artist * Evelina Coelho (1945–2013), painter *

José Dias Coelho José Dias Coelho (1923 in Pinhel – 1961 in Lisbon) was a Portugal, Portuguese painter and sculptor, an anti-fascist and an important member of the Portuguese Communist Party. In his youth, José Dias Coelho joined the Antifascist Academic Fron ...

(1923-1961) * Jorge Colaço (1868-1942) *

João Cutileiro João Cutileiro OSE (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble. Life Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of ...

(born 1937), sculptor especially of women's torsos in

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...

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* António Dacosta (1914-1990) * Francisco Coelho Maduro Dias (1904-1986), painter and sculptor *

Carlos Domingomes Carlos AMD Gomes (aka Domingomes, 7 May 1980 in Le Puy-en-Velay, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a Portuguese film director and producer. As an instructor, he worked with the education and training areas at schools in Lisbon: Instituto Superior d ...

(born 1980) *

Juno Doran Juno Doran is a visual and sound artist based in North Dorset, United Kingdom. Life and work Juno Doran is a visual and sound artist based in the UK. She was born in 1966 in Abrantes Abrantes () is a municipality in the central Médio Tejo s ...

(born 1966)

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* Mário Eloy (1900-1951)

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* Garcia Fernandes (died c. 1565) * Vasco Fernandes (1474-1541) * Cristóvão de Figueiredo (1449-1539)

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* Luis Geraldes (born 1957) *

Nuno Gonçalves Nuno Gonçalves (c. 1425 – c. 1491, ''fl.'' 1450–71) was a Portuguese artist whose work initiated the Portuguese Renaissance in painting. He was court painter for Afonso V of Portugal from 1450 to 1471, and in 1471 he was appointed the offici ...

(fl. 1450-1471)

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* Hazul, graffiti artist *

Francisco Henriques Francisco Henriques (died 1518) was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Portugal in the early 16th century. Born and raised in Amsterdam, he studied in Bruges, where he passed a degree in painting at the University of Groningen. He then went ...

(died 1518) * João Hogan (1914-1988) * Francisco de Holanda (1517-1585),

Renaissance humanist Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term ''humanist'' ( it, umanista) referred to teache ...

and painter

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* Josefa de Óbidos (ca. 1630-1684) * Ana Jotta (born 1946)

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Alfredo Keil Alfredo Cristiano Keil (3 July 1850 – 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese romantic composer and painter. Keil was born in Lisbon, the son of Johann Christian Keil (son of Johann Georg Keil and wife Elisabeth ...) and wife (m. Lisbon, 30 Augu ...

(1850-1907) * Kim Prisu (born 1962)

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* Fernando Lanhas (1923-2012) *

António Teixeira Lopes António Teixeira Lopes (27 October 1866–21 June 1942) was a Portuguese sculptor. Life Teixeira Lopes was the son of sculptor José Joaquim Teixeira Lopes and started learning his art in his father's workshop. In 1882 he entered the Academ ...

, (1866-1942), sculptor *

Cristóvão Lopes Cristóvão Lopes (c.1516–1594) was a Portuguese painter. Cristóvão Lopes was the son and disciple of royal painter Gregório Lopes, who died in 1550. Cristóvão succeeded his father as the royal painter of King John III in 1551. Sinc ...

(c. 1516-1594) * Gregório Lopes (1489-1549) * Cristobal López (c. 1516-1594) * Miguel Ângelo Lupi (1826-1883)

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António Macedo Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular ...

- realist painter (1954) *

Joaquim Machado de Castro Joaquim Machado de Castro (19 June 1731 – 17 November 1822) was one of Portugal's foremost sculptors. He wrote extensively on his works and the theory behind them, including a full-length discussion of the statue of King Joseph I entitled ' ...

- sculptor, writer, teacher (1731-1822) * Diogo Machado (born 1980) -

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complic ...

street artist A street artist is a person who makes art in public places. Street artists include portrait artists, caricaturists, graffiti artists, muralists and people making crafts. Street artists can also refer to street performers such as musicians, acrob ...

José Malhoa José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa (28 April 1855 – 26 October 1933) was a Portuguese painter. Malhoa was, with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting in the second half of the ...

(1855-1933) * Abel Manta (1928-1982) * João Abel Manta (1928-1982) * João Marques de Oliveira (1853-1927) * Henrique Medina (1901-1988) * Albuquerque Mendes (born 1953) * Jorge Melício (born 1957)

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José de Almada Negreiros José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (7 April 1893 – 15 June 1970) was a Portuguese artist. He was born in the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and a Santomean mother ...

(1893–1970) * Sá Nogueira (1921–2002)

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* Abigail de Paiva Cruz (1883-1944) * António Palolo (1946-2000) * Artur Pastor (1922-1999), photographer * António Pedro (1909-1966) * Manuel Pereira da Silva (1920-2003), sculptor * Álvaro Perdigão (1910-1994) * Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857-1929) * Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, (1846-1905), known for illustrations, caricatures, sculpture and ceramics designs, and is considered the first Portuguese comics creator *

Júlio Pomar Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM (10 January 1926 – 22 May 2018) was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was often considered the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation. Early life and career (1940s and 1950s) Pomar first ...

(1926-2018) * Henrique Pousão (1859-1884) * Pedro Portugal (born 1963) * Kim Prisu (born 1962)

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* Paula Rego (born 1935) * Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca (1926-1995) *

Rigo 23 Rigo 23 (born Ricardo Gouveia, 1966) is a Portuguese-born American muralist, painter, and political artist. He is known in the San Francisco community for having painted a number of large, graphic "sign" murals including: ''One Tree'' next to the ...

(born 1966) *

José Rodrigues José Rodrigues de Carvalho (16 July 1828 – 19 October 1887) was a Portugal, Portuguese Painting, painter. ''O Pobre Rabequista'' (''The poor rabequista''), painted in 1855 and considered Rodriques' most famous work, was first shown in Paris ...

(1828-1887) * Carlos Roque - Portuguese

comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...

(1936-2006)

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* José María Sá Lemos (1892–1971), sculptor * Abel Salazar (1889-1946) * Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), artist and professor who specialized in the

plastic arts Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture or ceramics. Less often the term may be used broadly for all the visual arts (such as painting, sculpture, film and ...

with an emphasis on

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...

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Julião Sarmento Julião Manuel Tavares Sena Sarmento (4 November 1948 – 4 May 2021) was a Portuguese multimedia artist and painter. Biography / Work Born in Lisbon in 1948, Sarmento studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He b ...

(1948–2021) * Domingos Sequeira (1768-1837) *

António Carvalho de Silva Porto António Carvalho da Silva (11 November 1850 – 1 June 1893), known as Silva Porto, was a Portuguese naturalist painter. Biography Born in Porto, he studied there under João António Correia and Tadeu de Almeida Furtado, then continued hi ...

(1850-1893) * João Artur da Silva (1928-) *

António Soares dos Reis António Manuel Soares dos Reis (Vila Nova de Gaia, 14 October 1847 - Vila Nova de Gaia, 16 February 1889) was a Portuguese sculptor. Studies He first studied at the Portuense Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in sculpture in 1867. He st ...

(1847-1889), sculptor *

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (14 November 1887 – 25 October 1918) was a Portuguese painter. Belonging to the first generation of Portuguese modernist painters, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso stands out among all of them for the exceptional quality of ...

(1887-1918) *

Aurélia de Souza Maria Aurélia Martins de Sousa (June 13, 1866 – May 26, 1922) was a Portuguese painter. Biography She was born in Valparaíso, Chile, the fourth of seven children to Portuguese emigrants António Martins de Sousa and Olinda Peres. The famil ...

(1865-1922) *

Sofia Martins de Sousa Sofia Martins de Sousa (March 23, 1870 – November 28, 1960) was a Portuguese painter. Biography She was born in Porto, Portugal, the youngest of seven children to Portuguese emigrants António Martins de Sousa and Olinda Peres. The family liv ...

(1870-1960)

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* Toonman (born 1975) * Pedro Tudela (born 1962)

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* Joana Vasconcelos (born 1971) * Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006) * Marcelino Vespeira (1925-2002) * Eduardo Viana (1881-1967) * Vieira Portuense (1765-1805) *

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (13 June 1908 – 6 March 1992) was a Portuguese abstract painter. She was considered a leading member of the European abstract expressionism movement known as Art Informel. Her works feature complex interiors and ...

(1907-1992) {{Artists by nationality

Portuguese artists Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

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