Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro

Photograph of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, in his work clothes, posing with his cats outside the main façade of the sales pavilion of the Fábrica de Faianças das Caldas da Rainha. The artist always had a great fascination with cats, and two are known to have been his pets: the male Pires and female Pili, who were sometimes portrayed in his drawings.