[1] For the next six years, he lived in France with his colleague António da Silva Porto while they studied at the École des Beaux-arts under Alexandre Cabanel and Adolphe Yvon.

The following year, he became Vice-President of the Centro Artístico Portuense, an association for the advancement of the arts modeled on the "Lion's Group [pt]" of Lisbon.

[3] In 1911, he was appointed Chairman of the Board and a member of the Executive Committee for Art at the newly reorganized Soares dos Reis National Museum.

He reluctantly resigned all of his positions in 1926, when he reached the mandatory retirement age for public employees, and died the following year in his home city of Porto.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum houses his Cabeça de raparigo (Head of a girl) and Interior, Costureiras trabalhando (Seamstresses at work).