- Henrique Medina
Henrique Medina de Barros (
18 August 1901 ,Porto -30 November 1988 ) was a Portuguese painter, the son of a Portuguese mother and a Spanish father. Fact|date=April 2008In 1919, he interrupted his studies in the Fine Arts School of Porto (Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto), and resumed his education in
Paris , whereCormon andBérard were among his teachers.Fact|date=April 2008Medina was an academic painter during
Modernism , and his subsequent career as aportraitist had an international reach.He lived in
London for ten years, before arriving inRome , where he painted Mussolini's portrait. He traveled toSão Paulo ,Buenos Aires ,Madrid , came back toParis and traveled toStockholm . He eventually moved to theUS . He lived inHollywood, California for six years and painted actresses' portraits.Fact|date=April 2008In his youth, Medina had spent vacations in his family's house in the suburbs of Marinhas, located in the municipality of
Esposende . In 1974, at the age of 73 he returned to Esposende to live, and to paintportrait s of rural life. Today, the secondary school of Esposende is named "Escola Secundária Henrique Medina" (Secondary School Henrique Medina) in his honour.Fact|date=April 2008The largest collection of his works are in
Braga , at the Medina Museum, and is composed of 50 oilpainting s anddrawing s.Fact|date=April 2008References
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