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Baltazar

Gomes

Figueira

orn in Óbidos on 1604. He
B was a painter known for is
still lives and landscapes. He was
the first Portuguese painter exhib-
ited at the Louvre museum in Paris.
He was educated in Sevilha where
he followed a military career. He
married and had a daughter, Jose-
fa, who later became a painter that
Raquel will talk about.

It was in Sevilha that Baltazar got
into contact with other artists such
as Francisco de Zurbarain and Juan
del Castillo. Later he worked as a
painter and masterpiece judge in
Bragança‘s house under the court of
King D. João IV and King D. Afonso
VI. He died in Óbidos in 1674.

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