José Rodrigues

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José Rodrigues de Carvalho (Lisbon, July 16 - 1828 — Lisbon, October 19, 1887) was a portuguese painter.

His most famous work, "The blind rabequista", painted in 1855, was first showed in Paris at the Universal Exhibition in 1855 and at the International Exposition of Porto in 1865, where he won the second award.

José Rodrigues, son of Apolinário José de Carvalho and Maria Leonarda, was baptised in São João da Praça in September 21, 1828, having as godfather José Rodrigues.

José Rodrigues (his homonym) had five brothers and lived at the "Rua dos Bacalhoeiros" in Lisbon, having married in 1863 with D. José Maria Rodrigues, daughter of José Rodrigues da Rocha, having also three children named (António Ribeiro Rodrigues, Teresa de Jesus Rodrigues and Leonor Matilde Rodrigues).

Prior to join the Academy of Fine Arts at (San Francisco Convent) as a volunteer student in 1841, he left a engraving dated of 1840. The existence of a colleague at the Academy also homonym, he officially requested the reduction of its name to "José Rodrigues." At fourteen years of age, in the drawing competition history, he won a prize in a copy of a bas-relief, modelling from student to student. From that time (1842) there still remains an engraving, signed and dated by José Rodrigues.