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Pereira, António (ii)
( fl first decade of the 18th century). Portuguese painter and decorative artist. He may have been a pupil or collaborator of Gabriel del Barco y Minusca, whose work his resembles in the spontaneity of the painting, though Pereira’s work is more elaborate and careful in execution. The signed panels in the Capela Dourada in the church of the Ordem Terceira de S Francisco (Third Order of St Francis), Recife (Brazil), representing hunting scenes, date from 1703. Above the two dado panels of tiles, with medallions containing putti, in the sacristy of the church of Loreto, Lisbon, are landscapes (1704). His other signed works include a panel representing Christ and the Woman of Samaria (c. 1703), in the Misericórdia Church in Vidigueira. Other panels of tiles attributed to Pereira are: the two panels in the sanctuary in the parish church of Colares, Sintra, depicting two scenes from the Flight into Egypt (c. 1705–10), after engravings by Karel van Mander; the panels that cover a chapel in Faro Cathedral also showing scenes from the Flight into Egypt (c. 1700); the panels of the sanctuary in the church of Espírito Santo, Montijo (1708), with two scenes representing Moses; and the lower panels of the sanctuary of the church of the monastery of S Domingos de Benfica, Lisbon (c. 1710), which depict hermits by Baroque fountains. The Baroque borders of these panels are rectilinear and formed by simple repeated curling designs with swags of foliage and small scrolls.
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