Vieira Portuense

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Francisco Vieira (13 May 1765, in Porto – 2 May 1805, in Funchal), who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting. He was, in the neoclassical style, one of the two great Portuguese painters of his generation, with Domingos Sequeira.