Retrato de António Breda

Fausto Sampaio, a unique artist of the naturalist period on the transition to modernism. He was the master of a sound technique and an enormous sensitivity, and he was an impressionist of great versatility and a innate landscape painter, with unique works of art where fast brush strokes and the extreme talent with the spatula allowed him to capture the impression of the moments, almost tangible instants, making them last forever.
A pupil of Jules Renard, he shone through the refined use of colour and by the predominance of illuminated or misty atmospheres.
In this artwork, in oil on canvas, in the most modernist phase of the painter, António Breda is represented with a frown in a dark background. António Pereira Pinto Breda was born on the 27th April of 1880, in Sardão, Águeda municipality. He was an illustrious benefactor, great friend and companion in the magnificence of Dionísio Pinheiro, relationship that persists in the municipality in terms of Memory of a Friendship, mirrored in deeds that still exist today.
He graduated from the School Medicine of Porto in 1905 and then he specializes in Ophthalmologic of Acute Conjunctivitis in the Medical Surgical School of Porto. António Breda was one of founders of the Portuguese Republic but he always refused political positions to which he was invited. Before the inauguration of the Conde de Sucena Hospital, space served as Military Sanatorium for the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps since 1917. With it's opening in 1922 as hospital, António Breda, already renowned surgeon, was left with the task of giving a new orientation and training to the hospital staff, making it one hospital of reference in the center region of the country. He married Léa Emelin Breda in 1931 and he died on the 10th June of 1964.