José Maria da Fonseca Évora

José Ribeiro da Fonseca Figueiredo e Sousa (Évora, 1690 – Porto, 1752) or José Maria da Fonseca e Évora was a Franciscan living in Rome. in the Convent of Aracoeli, for twenty-eight years. As ambassador of King Joao V, he was an agent in the purchase of works of art, namely for the Basilica of Mafra. He returned to Portugal in 1740, invited by the monarch to become Bishop of Oporto in 1741. He was one of the great figures of society and culture of the first half of the eighteenth century,