{{Short description|Brazilian painter, designer and art professor}} <!-- His self-portrait and most of his landscapes may still be copyrighted in the United States --> {{Infobox artist | name = Lucílio de Albuquerque | image = Lucilio e Georgina de Albuquerque.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Lucílio and his wife Georgina | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|5|9}} | birth_place = Barras, Empire of Brazil | death_date = {{Death date and age|1939|4|19|1877|5|9}} | death_place = Rio de Janeiro | nationality = | spouse = Georgina de Albuquerque | field = | training = | notable_works = | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} '''Lucílio de Albuquerque''' (9 May 1877 – 19 April 1939) was a Brazilian painter, designer and art professor. He is the Patron of the 3rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Fine Arts.<ref name="ABBASeats">{{cite web |title=De Cadeira (De Grau) |url=https://academiabrasileiradeartes.org.br/academicos/de-cadeira-de-grau/ |website=Academia Brasileira de Belas Artes |access-date=21 May 2026 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
== Biography == His father was a magistrate.<ref name="P">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141102001257/http://www.pitoresco.com/brasil/lucilio/lucilio.htm Biography and appreciation]}} @ Pitoresco.</ref> After a brief period of studying law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, he enrolled at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA), where he studied under João Zeferino da Costa, Rodolfo Amoedo and Henrique Bernardelli.<ref name="I">[http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/pessoa21324/lucilio-de-albuquerque Brief biography] @ the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural.</ref>
In 1906, his painting "Anchieta escrevendo o poema à Virgem" (Anchieta Writing the Poem to the Virgin) won him ENBA's "Travel Award". Soon after, he and his new bride Georgina (a classmate) left for France, where they remained for five years. While there, he attended the Académie Julian, where he studied with Marcel Baschet, Henri Royer and Jean-Paul Laurens.<ref name="I" /> He also worked in the studios of Eugène Grasset and had a small exhibition at the Salon.
Upon their return to Brazil in 1911, they held joint exhibitions at ENBA, where Lucílio became a Professor of Figure Drawing and was appointed to a chair in 1916. Over the next decade, he received many awards at the "{{ill|Exposições Gerais de Belas Artes|pt}}". He became the Director of ENBA in 1937, but resigned a year later due to poor health.<ref name="I" />
Best known for his portraits and landscapes, he also designed the stained-glass windows for the Brazilian Pavilion at the Turin International<ref name="I" /> and did decorative paintings for the Pedro Ernesto Palace.
After his death, Georgina turned their home in Laranjeiras into the "Museu Lucílio de Albuquerque".<ref name="P" />
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Anchieta-Albuquerque.jpg|Anchieta writing the Poem to the Virgin (1906) File:Lucílio de Albuquerque - Jangada, 1920.jpg|The Raft (1920) </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Luís de Albuquerque, ''Lucílio de Albuquerque: exposicao retropectiva'' (Exhibition catalog), Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Serviço Gráfico do Ministério da Educação e Saude, 1940
== External links == {{commons category|Lucílio de Albuquerque}} * [http://www.dezenovevinte.net/artistas/la_peg.htm "Lucílio de Albuquerque na arte brasileira", by Piedade Epstein Grinberg] @ DezeNoveVinte {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Albuquerque, Lucilio}} Category:1877 births Category:1939 deaths Category:Brazilian landscape painters Category:Brazilian art educators Category:20th-century Brazilian painters Category:Brazilian male painters Category:20th-century Brazilian male artists Category:Académie Julian alumni Category:Brazilian expatriates in France
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