European Sculpture & Works of Art: The Nineteenth Century

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Lot 104
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António Teixeira Lopes Portuguese, 1866-1942

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Description

  • António Teixeira Lopes
  • Infância de Caim (the childhood of cain)
  • signed: Teixra Lopes with the C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE foundry stamp

  • bronze, black patina

Catalogue Note

António Teixeira Lopes was the son of a sculptor, José Joaquim Teixeira Lopes. António began his career working in the shipyards of Gaia, creating sculptures to decorate the ships being built. He  went on to study under the painter-professor João Correia at the Academia de S. Lázaro in Porto, whilst financing his studies by making small devotional religious sculptures. 

He was given the commission for a statue of D. Pedro V which was erected in the centre of the Praça da Batalha in Porto. He also received a government funded bursary to study at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.

A large scale marble version of the present model, dated 1890, is in the Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal.