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Rodolfo Amoedo
(born in Salvador, Bahia on December 11, 1857; died in Rio de Janeiro on May 31, 1941) was a Brazilian history painter. He began his career as an artist in 1873 as a student of Victor Meirelles. In 1878 he won the first prize at the Brazilian Academy, which allowed him to travel to Paris, where he lived from 1879 to 1887 studying at the École des Beaux Arts. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and also worked with Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry. He was a professor and later director of the Brazilian Academy, renamed School of Fine Arts ou Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the fall of the Brazilian Empire. His students include Eliseu Visconti. He died forgotten and so poor his friends had to help the widow pay for his funeral. His paintings still hang at the National Museum Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.
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Painting ID:: 85596
Study of a woman
1884(1884)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 150.5 x 200 cm (59.3 x 78.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 85645
Recostada
Date 1880(1880)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65.2 x 54 cm (25.7 x 21.3 in)
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Painting ID:: 85764
Bust of Adelaide Amoedo, aged 20
Date 1892(1892)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 41 x 33 cm (16.1 x 13 in)
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Painting ID:: 85837
Jacobs departure
1884(1884)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 105.5 x 136 cm (41.5 x 53.5 in)
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Painting ID:: 85851
Maraba
1882(1882)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65.5 x 88.4 cm (25.8 x 34.8 in)
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Rodolfo Amoedo
(born in Salvador, Bahia on December 11, 1857; died in Rio de Janeiro on May 31, 1941) was a Brazilian history painter. He began his career as an artist in 1873 as a student of Victor Meirelles. In 1878 he won the first prize at the Brazilian Academy, which allowed him to travel to Paris, where he lived from 1879 to 1887 studying at the École des Beaux Arts. He was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and also worked with Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry. He was a professor and later director of the Brazilian Academy, renamed School of Fine Arts ou Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the fall of the Brazilian Empire. His students include Eliseu Visconti. He died forgotten and so poor his friends had to help the widow pay for his funeral. His paintings still hang at the National Museum Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.
. Related Artists to Rodolfo Amoedo: | Peter Adolf Persson | John Robert Cozens | Moran, Edward | Frederick william watts | oskar kokoschka |
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