[2] In 1928, he finished the course of the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon, with a proven proof of sculpture under the title Abel and Cain.

[3] In 1930, he won the contest for the monument to the dead from the First World War in Abrantes, Portugal, the first to be modelled in concrete.

In collaboration with architect Veloso Reis, in 1931 he was awarded first prize by the jury for the selection of a monument to the dead of the First World War for Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), a sculpture that was delivered to the city in 1935.

The sculptor won a contest for the realization of a statue of Don Juan II of Portugal, which was erected on Avenida da India, in Lisbon.

He married María Elena Castelo Branco in 1933; and, in the same year, he modelled statues and bas-reliefs for the design of the monument to Henry the Navigator, to be erected in Sagres, designed by the architects Carlos e Guilherme Rebelo de Andrade.