REVISITING A MUSEUM (SLIDE-SHOW)

As some of you may know,  visiting art galleries and museums always gives me a great pleasure. 

Last week, during my short stay in Oporto, I found time to revisit the city’s main museum Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, the country’s first public art museum that was founded in 1833. 
The palace where the museum is currently housed was built in 1795 as home for a wealthy family. The architecture of the building was very much influenced by the neo-Palladian buildings designed by English architects based in Oporto. This influence explains the architecture of the building, which follows the neo-classical style that characterized late 18th and 19th-century architecture in the city.
The Museum has a vast collection mainly focused on Portuguese art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including painting, sculpture, furniture, jewelry, crystal wares, etc.  
The main purpose of re-visiting Soares dos Reis Museum was to see the exhibition called ‘DIARY OF A FINE ARTS STUDENT’ that showed works by Henrique Pousão (1859-1884), one of my favorite painters and simultaneously one of the most recognized Portuguese painters of the 19th century who never stopped being a fine arts student. Pousão enrolled in the Oporto Academy of Fine Arts at the age of thirteen and died at twenty five before completing his studies in France and Italy. Other pieces on display also caught my eye.