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Lupi, Miguel Ângelo
(b Lisbon, 8 May 1826; d Lisbon, 26 Feb 1883). Portuguese painter of Italian descent. He studied in Lisbon, 1841–6, at the Academia de Belas-Artes, where he was a pupil of Joaquim Rafael (1783–1864) and of António Manuel da Fonseca. He spent the years 1851–3 in Luanda (Angola) as a Treasury official, returning to Lisbon in 1855 as a secretary in the Audit Department, but in 1860 he left for Rome with an official bursary. There he copied the paintings of Old Masters. In 1864 he was elected académico de mérito for his painting of the Infante Dom João of Portugal (Lisbon, Mus. N. A. Contemp.). He went on to Paris, where he came under the influence of the Realist School. Returning to Lisbon in 1864, he exhibited in the Salons of the Sociedade Promotora de Belas Artes from 1864 to 1868. He specialized in portraiture, and in this field he was the most realistic Portuguese painter of his time, using an innovative technique of obtaining colour resonance by means of sponging, a practice that produced very subtle nuances of tone.
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