Pedro Américo
1843-1905 Brazil/Academic
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Brief Biography-Pedro Américo was born in Areia in the Northeast of Brazil and moved to Rio de Janner at eleven. He entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1856, and in 1859 he did a course in the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he was a disciple of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Horace Vernet. After a brief trip to Brazil, he returned to Brussels and gained the title of Doctor of Physical Sciences and Natures. In 1869, he married in Portugal and had three children before settling in Florence, Italy, where he spent the remainder of his life making occasional trips to Brazil. |
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