Miguel Ângelo Lupi was a Portuguese Romantic painter. He was a professor of historical painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon.

In some of his finest portraits, like the Portrait of the Duke of Ávila and Bolama (1880), at the Chiado Museum

Chiado Museum

The Chiado Museum is an art museum located in Lisbon, in the Chiado neighbourhood. It was created in 1911 and re-inaugurated, in new installations, in 1994....

, in Lisbon, his work, probably because of his knowledge of the French Realist and Naturalist painters, like Courbet

Gustave Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...

, deviate from his Portuguese contemporaries, approaching the new trends of his time. Despite the fundamental lines of his work, focusing on the portrayal of the rich and famous, Lupi also painted interior scenes, scenes of family life and themes of historic nature, as the Marquis de Pombal at work examining the project of reconstruction of Lisbon.