Aurélia de Souza (1867-1922) was a Portuguese painter.

She was born in Valparaíso

Valparaíso

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, Chile

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. Her parents were emigrants in Brazil and Chile, but they moved back to Porto

Porto

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, Portugal, in 1869. She studyed at the Fine-Arts Academy of Porto, since 1893, where she was a pupil of João Marques de Oliveira

João Marques de Oliveira

João Marques de Oliveira was a Portuguese naturalist painter.He studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Porto and in 1873 travelled to France with is colleague António Silva Porto, where they studied with academical painters Adolphe Yvon and Alexandre Cabanel. They became familiar with the French...

, who greatly influenced her style. In 1898, she moved to Paris

Paris

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to study painting, and she traveled for Europe in the next three years, before finally returning to Portugal in 1901. She died in Porto.

She was influenced by the most innovative painting styles that she saw in France, as can be seen in her work. She painted in a personal naturalist style, sometimes with realist, impressionist or post-impressionist influences. Her "Self-Portrait" (c. 1900) is one of the finest in all the Portuguese painting, showing her image as a reflection in the mirror.