The future artist

Portrait of a girl, who looks to the observer. Sitting on a red cushion that matches the vibrant tone of her hair’s ribbon, surrounded by pictures hanging from the walls, she holds a blank canvas in her hands.
This portrait reminds us, by the pose of the model, another work entitled "Rest of the Artist" whose model was the painter's wife.
Artur Loureiro, a naturalist painter, specialized in landscape, animal figuration and portrait, after his formation in Porto, Rome, Lisbon, Paris, from 1883, will live in Melbourne with his Australian wife, where he is going to be a professor. He begins a new artistic phase with influences of the New Art and the Pre-Raphaelites, that he had observed in London. He returned to Porto in 1901, installing his atelier in the Crystal Palace to teach there.