He attended the "Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto" from 1903 to 1910, where he studied with and
João Marques de Oliveira and was awarded the "Prémio Soares dos Reis", given in honor of the sculptor
António Soares dos Reis. In 1910, he went to Paris to complete his studies. While there, he came under the influence of
Édouard Manet and
Amedeo Modigliani and exhibited at the
Salon des Humoristes held in the . Together with
Aquilino Ribeiro and , he helped create the magazine
Génio Latino, which also numbered
Manuel Jardim and among its contributors. He was a great admirer of the caricaturists
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and , so he also participated in their "Exposições de Humoristas e Modernistas", an important venue for promoting
Modern art of all varieties, that was created after the establishment of the
First Portuguese Republic and ran from 1912 to 1923 in Porto and Lisbon. In 1914, he was diagnosed with
tuberculosis and had to be hospitalized. The following year, he returned home and, in 1916, collaborated on producing the humorous weekly newspaper
Miau!, which not only included contributions from his old friends in Paris, now also returned to Portugal, but attracted art work from
Théophile Steinlen,
Lucien Métivet,
Paul Iribe,
Francisque Poulbot,
Bagaria,
Olaf Gulbransson and others outside Portugal as well. He also served as Editor for several long-forgotten humorous journals. He succumbed to his illness in 1923, after moving to the countryside in search of a better climate. ==Selected works==