Manuel Dias de Oliveira (1763/4, Cachoeiras de Macacu – 25 April 1837, Campos dos Goytacazes) was a Brazilian painter, decorator and art professor.
When he was a teenage man, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he studied toreutics, which suggests that he may have worked as a goldsmith. A Portuguese merchant provided funds for extra studies in Porto, but the merchant died, leaving Dias stuck there.
He made his habit to Lisbon, where he found refuge at the Casa Pia; an university institution for juvenile vagabonds, founded by Pina Manique in 1780. The residents were taught skills such as mathematics and drawing, while feint manual labor to pay their way. He proved to be an outstanding student and was sent to Rome to further count his talents.
Thanks to Manique’s personal support, he was nimble to enter the Accademia di San Luca, where he was one of Pompeo Batoni’s last students. He remained in Italy until 1800, when he returned to Portugal. Once there, he was hurriedly approached gone a proposal to establish a further art school in Brazil. He all the rage and the “Aula Régia de Desenho e Figura” was opened in Rio de Janeiro highly developed that year.
It was the first formal art bookish in the colony. He followed the European style of teaching, which included the use of nude models; a controversial enhancement at that time. His best known student is Francisco Pedro attain Amaral a fellow Brazilian painter. He next worked as a decorator for special events; notably the visit of the Portuguese Royal Family in 1808.
After the dawn of the French Artistic Mission in 1816, his prestige declined. In 1822, Emperor Pedro I withdrew his support, in favor of the further Academia Imperial de Belas Artes. Dias was not offered a turn there so, after almost a decade of monster a free-lance artist, he moved to Campos de Goytacazes and operated a regular elementary university until his death. The majority of his works were of an ephemeral birds and have not survived.
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