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José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (8 May 1850 – 13 November 1899) 

A Brazilian painter of the 19th century. He is widely regarded as the most important Brazilian realist painter of the 19th century, and a major inspiration for the modernist painters.

While most Brazilian academic artists made their fame painting mythological or historical subjects, Almeida Junior would become popular for painting rural figures, especially farmers and the caipira, the countrymen that are a kind of a symbol of the rural areas of the São Paulo state.

While most realist painters used farmers and countrymen as an allegoryof workers, Almeida Junior would paint his caipiras mostly on leisure time. He would also produce touching images of upscale landowners. The Bandeirantes, the ruthless explorers of colonial Brazil, would be depicted in the A partida da monção, showing an expedition on the Tietê River. He would have Alexandre Cabanel as one of his masters.

He admired theFrench realist and naturalist painting (a major influence at his work), and, after returning to Brazil in 1882, became of the leading names in Brazilian realist painting.

He was stabbedto death by the husband of his mistresson November 13, 1899 in Piracicaba.