36 20th century Portuguese painters

Francisco Caetano Keil Coelho do Amaral, 2nd Viscount of Pedralva, was a Portuguese architect, painter and photographer. His name was given to a street in Lisbon.

Lino António da Conceição was a Portuguese artist known for his Modernist frescoes. He made many friezes, frescos, stained glass and ceramic panels for public buildings in Portugal. He taught in several schools and was director for many years at the Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio in Lisbon, having an influence over hundreds of artists, mostly painters and designers.

Armando Pereira de Basto was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, sculptor and decorator.

Carlos Augusto Bonvalot was an early 20th-century Portuguese painter, noted for his portraits of an intimist nature and for his realist depictions of daily life around the town of Cascais. Apart from painting, Bonvalot was an important authority in conservation and restoration of artworks; most notably, he was a pioneer in the country in the technical examination of paintings using X-rays.

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter. Usually considered the greatest Portuguese painter of the 19th century, he has been compared to the likes of Wilhelm Leibl and John Singer Sargent.

Carlos Botelho was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, comics artist, political cartoonist, satirist and caricaturist, whose works are shown at the Chiado Museum and at the Modern Art Centre José de Azeredo Perdigão / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. Botelho was one of the most relevant Portuguese artists of his generation.

António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior was a Portuguese Expressionist painter, illustrator, poet and art professor.

Oscar Casares is a Portuguese painter and a costume and fashion designer.

Manuel Casimiro is a Portuguese painter, sculptor, designer and film director. He was born in Porto, Portugal, where he is currently living. Manuel Casimiro has spent a large part of his life living abroad, especially in Nice, France where he went to live after he was wounded in Portuguese Angola during the Portuguese Colonial War.

Lourdes Castro is a Portuguese artist from Funchal, Madeira. After specializing in abstract art, in the 1960s she created collages and silk screens, seeking to capture ephemeral reality. From the 1970s, together with her partner Manuel Zimbro, she developed shadow puppets for her Shadow Theatre, gaining acclaim throughout Europe and Brazil. In 1998, together with Francisco Tropa, she created an installation for Portugal's contribution to the São Paulo Art Biennial.

Maria Evelina Coelho Martins da Fonseca, whose artistic name was Evelina Coelho, was a Portuguese painter, from Vila Fernando, Guarda, Portugal.

Jorge Colaço was a Portuguese painter specially known for his works as tile (azulejo) painter.

Francisco Maduro Dias Coelho was a Portuguese poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher, set designer and an overall "theatre man". He was one of the founders of the Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, having an important role in the cultural scene of the first half of the Azorean twentieth century.

Helena Roque Gameiro Leitao de Barros was a Portuguese watercolourist and painter.

Raquel Roque Gameiro Ottolini (1889–1970) was a prominent Portuguese illustrator and watercolourist. She exhibited her paintings at Lisbon's Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes from 1909, receiving the SNBA watercolour medal in 1929. Gameiro illustrated numerous books, newspapers and magazines, including Diário de Notícias and O Século.

Alfredo Roque Gameiro was a Portuguese painter and graphic artist who specialized in watercolors.

João Manuel Navarro Hogan was a Portuguese painter and printmaker.

Alfredo Cristiano Keil was a Portuguese romantic composer and painter.

Artur José de Sousa Loureiro was a Portuguese painter.

José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa was a Portuguese painter.

Abel Manta was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist.

João Joaquim Marques da Silva Oliveira 23 August 1853 - 9 October 1927) was a Portuguese painter in the Naturalist style.

Bernardo Loureiro Marques, was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, graphic artist and caricaturist. He was one of the most relevant Portuguese artists of his generation.

Henrique Medina de Barros was a Portuguese portraitist.

Clementina Carneiro de Moura was a Portuguese teacher, modernist painter and promoter of traditional arts.

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros was a Portuguese artist. He was born in the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and a Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral. Besides literature and painting, Almada developed ballet choreographies, and worked on tapestry, engraving, murals, caricature, mosaic, azulejo and stained glass.

Rolando Sá Nogueira,, was one of the most important painters of his generation; according to José Augusto França, he belongs to the third wave of 20th Century modern Portuguese painters [1].

Álvaro Perdigão was a Portuguese painter.

Abel de Lima Salazar, was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto. He was the son of Adolfo Barroso Pereira Salazar and wife Adelaide da Luz da Silva e Lima.

Maria Aurélia Martins de Sousa was a Portuguese painter.

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso was a Portuguese painter.

José Júlio de Souza Pinto was a Portuguese painter in the Naturalist style.

Katherine Swift (1956–2004) was an Irish-born Portuguese painter, illustrator and ceramicist.

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos or Mário Cesariny was a Portuguese surrealist poet. He published several major works during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but his work became more centered on poetry in the 1950s.

João José Vaz was a Portuguese painter and decorator who specialized in maritime subjects.

José Maria Veloso Salgado was a Galician-born Portuguese artist. He is regarded as one of the country's foremost masters of Naturalism with many distinguished works in historical painting, landscapes, and portraits.