José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior

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José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior was a prominent Brazilian artist and designer, recognized as one of the first in Brazil to paint in the Realistic tradition of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet. He studied at the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes and later in Paris, and his birthday is celebrated as the Day of Fine Artists in Brazil.