In the history of art, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior as Brazilian painter (1850-1899).
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior was born at Itu in 1851. His recorded nationality is Brazil. He trained at Academia Imperial de Belas Artes.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is realism.
Among his best-known works are The Model's Rest, A Conversão de São Paulo a Caminho de Damasco and Interrupted Whetting. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Recognition followed: Imperial Order of the Rose.
That the work was made in Brazil shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior died in 1899, aged 48. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Imperial Order of the Rose
- Notable work: The Model's Rest
- Notable work: A Conversão de São Paulo a Caminho de Damasco
- Notable work: Interrupted Whetting
- Notable work: Monção departing
- Movement: realism
