Roque Gameiro

Portuguese painter (1864-1935), he initiated his artistic career as a drawer-lithographer, in his brother Justino Guedes Roque Gameiro’s atelier, where he produced a vast work as a books, magazines and newspapers illustrator; however it was especially as a watercolour painter that he was renowned. His technique achieved great perfectionism, what got him lots of national and international prizes. In 1884, Alfredo Roque Gameiro took off to Germany, where he dedicated to the study and learning of new lithographic techniques. Getting back to Portugal in 19886 he directed the Companhia Nacional Editora and in 1894 he was nominated teacher at the Escola Industrial do Príncipe Real. There are three institutions in Portugal with his name, two of them in Amadora: the Escola Roque Gameiro (junior high school) and the “Casa Roque Gameiro” the artist and his family’s residence (currently an exhibition facility from the municipality; and a third one in Minde, his native land: the Centro de Artes e Ofícios Roque Gameiro that includes the Roque Gameiro Watercolour Museum, where we can find most of the artist’s works.