Luciano Freire

He also learned naturalist landscape painting from, and was heavily influenced by, Antonio da Silva Porto.

Ironically, it was lost at sea while being brought back from an exhibition of Portuguese paintings at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

During his tenure there, he travelled extensively, to France and England, visiting museums and art galleries, to raise awareness of issues involving the preservation of Europe's artistic heritage.

He was also a member of the Council of Art and Archaeology, a branch of the Ministry of Public Instruction; serving as its President in 1911 and 1932.

[2] He was a strong supporter of the First Portuguese Republic; participating in the inventories that were taken of the royal palaces, and religious congregations, as part of the separation of church and state.