Garcia Fernandes

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Angel of the Annunciation (c.1531) by Garcia Fernandes, from the Santa Clara Convent in Coimbra, now in the Machado de Castro Museum.

Garcia Fernandes (d. c.1565) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. Like many of painters of the time, Garcia Fernandes was a pupil in the Lisbon workshop of Jorge Afonso, who was King Manuel's royal painter.

In the 1530s he worked in Coimbra for the Santa Clara Convent and the Santa Cruz Monastery. Between 1533 and 1534, together with Cristóvão de Figueiredo and Gregório Lopes, he was responsible for the three painted altarpieces of the Monastery of Ferreirim, near Lamego. Later, he painted panels for the transept of the Church of St Francis in Évora.

In Lisbon, he was responsible for the altarpiece of the Trindade Convent and the panel for the St Bartholomew Chapel of Lisbon Cathedral (c. 1537 AD), as well as the main altarpiece of the São Roque Church (1541), now in the Museum of São Roque. He even painted altarpieces commissioned for the cathedral of Old Goa, in Portuguese India, then a part of the Portuguese Empire.

Garcia Fernandes married in 1518 and had at least nine children. His paintings can be seen in several churches and monasteries around Portugal, as well as in the National Museum of Ancient Art (Lisbon) and the Machado de Castro Museum (Coimbra).