Francisco Pedro do Amaral

Francisco Pedro do Amaral (c. 1790 – 10 November 1831) was a Brazilian painter, designer, scenographer and gilder.

When Jean-Baptiste Debret arrived with the French Artistic Mission, Amaral and a Portuguese-immigrant painter, Simplício de Sá, became two of his first students.

[1] After the establishment of the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes, Amaral was commissioned to provide decorations for the Biblioteca Nacional (which, at that time, was located in the Carmo Convent [pt]), and the Paço de São Cristóvão, where he worked until 1829.

[1] In 1830, he returned to the Paço de São Cristóvão to decorate the coaches that were to be used for the Nuptial Mass of Emperor Pedro I and Amélie of Leuchtenberg.

Among the most notable are the above-mentioned coaches (now at the Imperial Museum of Brazil) and allegorical panels depicting the four continents, in the Museu do Primeiro Reinado [pt] (formerly the "Palacete do Caminho Novo").