António Carneiro

António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior (16 September 1872 – 31 March 1930) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, poet and art professor.

Biography Born into a working-class family, at the age of seven, he was abandoned by his father and lost his mother not long after. In 1879, he was placed in an orphanage operated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia. It was there that he received his basic education and had his first drawing lessons.

His talent was noticed early and thanks to the efforts of his teacher and the school's director, he was able to enroll at the "" in 1884, where he studied with the painter João Marques de Oliveira until 1888. That year, he turned eighteen and left the orphanage, where he took up sculpture with António Soares dos Reis, but returned to painting after Reis' suicide, entering the workshop of João António Correia. In 1891, he wrote his first poems and, two years later, he married. In 1895, he was reunited with his father, who had returned from Brazil.