D. Filipa de Vilhena Arming the Sons Knights

D. Filipa de Vilhena armando os Filhos Cavaleiros was an oil painting on canvas from 1801 by the artist Portuguese from the time of neoclassicism Vieira Portuense (1765-1805), a work that belonged to a private collection and was destroyed by fire in 2007.The painting represented the historical episode of Filipa de Vilhena, Countess of Atouguia widow, that having learned of the preparations that led to the Restoration of Independence, to have advised his two sons, Jerónimo de Ataíde and Francisco Coutinho, to join, having given them the weapons in the early hours of 1 December 1640, and sending them to fight for the fatherland, telling them not to return but victorious.

According to Varela Gomes, this painting by Vieira Portuense was the most important of his large paintings of profane theme and the most international Portuguese painting of the time.