Eusébio de Matos e Guerra (1629 in Salvador – 7 July 1692) was an orator, painter, poet, and professor of theology.
[1][2][3] He represented the interests of his family in transaction with the colleges of the Jesuits of Bahia and Santo Antão de Lisboa in 1659.
He published the Sermão da soledade e lágrimas de Maria Santíssima Senhora Nossa in Lisbon in 1681.
[1][2] The painting on the ceiling of the nave of Church and Convent of Our Lady of Carmo, completed in the middle of the 17th century, is attributed to him.
Eusébio da Soledade is also the author of the painting of São Pedro Arrependido, which was located in the Church and Monastery of Our Lady of Monserrate until the end of the 1940s.