Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Self portrait (1929), Chiado Museum, Lisbon
Born
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

(1857-11-21)21 November 1857
Died6 November 1929(1929-11-06) (aged 71)
The Lion's Group (1885)

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Almada, 21 November 1857 – Lisbon, 6 November 1929), who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter. Usually considered the greatest Portuguese painter of the 19th century, he has been compared to the likes of Wilhelm Leibl and John Singer Sargent.