Description ARTUR PRAT (1861-1918), WINDMILL AND FISHERMEN Oil on canvas. Signed. Dated 1898. Small defects. Dim.: 23x37 cm. Note: Artur Prat, important painter and sculptor, was born in Brazil in 1861 and died in Lisbon in 1918.
Notes He lived in Aveiro, where he is burried, and considered it his homeland. He studied in Lisbon, was school director in Portalegre, Lisbon and Coimbra. He was represented in Paris Universal Exhibition and in the first Portuguese art exhibition in London (Bruton Galleries). After 1908 he was dedicated to sculpture. He his the the author of "O último Alento", the sculpture on his family′s mausoleum.