Manuel Jardim

Manuel de Azambuja Leite Pereira Jardim (6 November 1884, Montemor-o-Velho – 7 June 1923, Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and art teacher.

He was born to an aristocratically inclined bourgeois family from Coimbra and studied at the "Escola de Belas-Artes" (now part of the University of Lisbon) from 1903 to 1905, then went to Paris with Manuel Bentes [pt] and Eduardo Viana.

[1] He studied at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, where he was influenced by the works of Eugène Carrière and Édouard Manet.

While there, he joined with the architect José Pacheko [pt] in an effort to establish a "Sociedade Portuguesa de Arte Moderna", but was unsuccessful.

In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for the magazines Contemporânea and Serões [pt].