Manuel Dias de Oliveira

Manuel Dias de Oliveira (1763/4 – 25 April 1837) was a Brazilian painter, decorator and art professor.

When he was a young man, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he studied toreutics, which suggests that he may have worked as a goldsmith.

Thanks to Manique's personal support, he was able to enter the Accademia di San Luca, where he was one of Pompeo Batoni's last students.

[1] Dias was not offered a position there so, after almost a decade of being a free-lance artist, he moved to Campos de Goytacazes and operated a regular elementary school until his death.

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