Oscar Pereira da Silva

Oscar Pereira da Silva (August 29, 1867 – January 17, 1939) was a Brazilian painter, draftsman, designer, and instructor. He was active from the end of the 19th to the mid-20th century. He is noted for his depictions of historical events in Brazil, but also completed numerous portraits, religious works, genre scenes, still lifes, and landscapes. He "paid no attention to Brazilian folk tradition" and painted in an "antique style."

Early career

Pereira da Silva was born in São Fidélis. He showed an early interest in drawing and painting. He enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1882 and studied with Eliseu Visconti, Eduardo de Sá, and João Batista da Costa. He became a student of Zeferino da Costa, Victor Meirelles, Chaves Pinheiro, and José Maria de Medeiros. He assisted Zeferino da Costa assistant in the interior painting of the Candelária Church (Igreja da Candelária), Rio de Janeiro, in 1887. Based on this experience, he completed paintings of the interior of the Church of Santa Cecília São Paulo.

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