He made many friezes, frescos, stained glass and ceramic panels for public buildings and private collections in Portugal.

[1] On 1 October 1915 he enrolled at the Porto School of Fine Arts, where he studied under João Marques de Oliveira.

[2] By 1917 António was attending the "modernist gatherings" of Porto students described by the sculptor Diogo de Macedo, often held in the Excelsior café.

[1] In the years that followed he participated in numerous exhibitions, made friezes, frescoes, stained glass and ceramic panels for various public buildings and illustrated several books.

[4] He became director of the school in 1953 and overhauled the curriculum to include fine arts, lithography, decorative painting, sculpture and pottery, carving and artistic furniture.

He explored themes of fishing (in Peixeiras na Praïa (Fishmongers on the beach, housed by the Soares dos Reis National Museum), religion and history in his panels and frescoes.