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Crispim do Amaral (1858 - December 17, 1911) was an actor, decorator, journalist, painter, draftsman, illustrator, and caricaturist in Brazil.
He edited ''The Courier'' in 1879 in Para, Brazil and was its illustrator. He traveled to Paris in 1888. Back in Brazil he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he founded the magazines ''O Malho'', ''A Avenida'', ''O Pau'', and ''O Século''.
He was born in 
Amaral painted the curtain of the Amazon Theatre (debuted 1897) in 
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Crispim do Amaral (1858 - December 17, 1911) was an actor, decorator, journalist, painter, draftsman, illustrator, and caricaturist in Brazil.
He edited ''The Courier'' in 1879 in Para, Brazil and was its illustrator. He traveled to Paris in 1888. Back in Brazil he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he founded the magazines ''O Malho'', ''A Avenida'', ''O Pau'', and ''O Século''.
He was born in Olinda
Olinda () is a historic city in Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region. It is located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, in the Recife metropolitan area, Metropolitan Region of Recife, the state capi ...
.
Amaral painted the curtain of the Amazon Theatre (debuted 1897) in Manaus
Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...
titled "Meeting of the Waters".
At the Brazilian National Exposition of 1908
The national commemorative Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil, also known as Brazilian National Exposition of 1908 or the National Exposition of Brazil at Rio de Janeiro, marked a hundred years since the opening of t ...
he painted the interior murals of the Minas Geraes
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by Gross Domestic Product, gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Be ...
state pavilion including a series of images personifying agriculture, mineralogy, manufactures and the liberal arts. The building was designed by Rafael Rebecchi
Rafael Rebecchi was an architect in Rio de Janeiro. He designed several buildings for the Brazilian National Exposition of 1908 in Rio de Janeiro. He was also involved with a rebuilding project at the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. He won a faca ...
. Exhibits at the pavilion included aspects of gold and diamond mining.
He died in Rio de Janeiro.
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1858 births 1911 deaths Brazilian male stage actors Brazilian magazine founders People from Olinda 19th-century Brazilian male actors Brazilian cartoonists British male painters 19th-century Brazilian painters 19th-century Brazilian male artists British newspaper editors {{Brazil-artist-stub