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Luís de Meneses, 2nd Viscount of Meneses

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In 1853, following the death of his father, he became the 2nd Viscount of Meneses (the title was renewed by royal decree on 14 December 1853). On 8 May 1858, he married Carlota Emília de Mac-Mahon Pereira Guimarães, the daughter of Francisco Pereira Guimarães, a judge in the Supreme Council of
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The son of the Viscounts of Meneses, D. José António de Miranda Pereira de Meneses and his wife D. Elisa Eugénia Edwards de Desanges, he showed great potential for art since a young age. At age 16, he joined the Army, fighting for
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and, later, in c. 1878, a portrait of the eldest of their two daughters, Elisa Wilfrida, currently in the
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In 1860, he was a founding member and vice-president of the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (
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for Italy in 1844, sponsored by his father. In Rome, he was a disciple of
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Luís de Miranda Pereira Henriques de Meneses, 2nd Viscount of Meneses
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Index

His Lordship
CvTE
ComNSC

Porto
Portugal
Lisbon
Portugal
D.
CvTE
ComNSC
Romantic
Portugal
Queen Maria II
Siege of Porto
Lisbon
António Manuel da Fonseca
Francisco Augusto Metrass
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Pre-Raphaelites
Reynolds
Gainsborough
Lawrence
Rigaud
Winterhalter
Romanticism
Portugal

National Museum of Contemporary Art
Soares dos Reis National Museum

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