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SEQUEIRA, DOMINGO ANTONIOr DE (1768-r837), Portuguese painter, was born at Lisbon in 1768, and studied art first at the academy
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for the prince regent, for Donna Maria Teresa, and for the members of the court. He designed the valuable silver service which was presented by the Portuguese nation to Wellington , and a monument that was erected in 182o in the Rocio square at Lisbon. In 1823 he visited Paris, where he is known to have tried his skill in lithography and etching. The last years of his life he spent in Rome, devoting himself chiefly to devotional subjects and to his duties as head of the Portuguese Academy. He died in Rome in 1837. His best-known pictures are the " Last Moments of the Poet Camoens ," " Flight into Egypt
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