Adriano Sousa Lopes

Adriano Sousa Lopes (20 February 1879, in Leiria – 21 April 1944, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese Modernist painter and engraver who worked in a wide range of genres.

In 1898, after working for several years as a pharmacy assistant,[1] he entered the "Academia Real de Belas-Artes" (now part of the University of Lisbon) where he studied painting with Veloso Salgado and design with Luciano Freire.

[2] In 1903, he received a stipend from the "Legado do Visconde de Valmor", a charitable fund established in 1898 for training artists and acquiring art, among other objectives.

[2] The following year, he settled in Versailles to turn his sketches into paintings and engravings, which were exhibited in Paris in 1923 under the title "Portugal in the Great War".

[2] During the 1930s, he turned to a more traditional style of painting after he received several official commissions, including murals for the "Museu Militar de Lisboa" and, later, the Main Hall of the National Assembly at São Bento Palace.