Early life .
National Museum of Ancient Art. Farrobo, named after his father, was the son of the Baron of Quintela,
Joaquim Pedro Quintela, and his wife D. Maria Joaquina Xavier de Saldanha. He was very fond of the arts ever since a young age; he became an accomplished amateur musician, playing in
João Domingos Bomtempo's Philharmonic Society, modelled after the London
Royal Philharmonic Society. He sang, played the
cello, the
bass, and was a
French horn soloist.
Thalia Theatre In 1820, he had an elegant theatre —
Thalia Theatre — built in his vast Laranjeiras estate, in
São Domingos de Benfica (which is nowadays mostly occupied by
Lisbon Zoo). The theatre, inscribed over the entrance "", became famous for the opulent functions it frequently hosted, though they were interrupted by the political agitation of the Civil War in the late 1820s and early 1830s. to Marie Madeleine Pignault, from whom he already had three children: Júlio Maria Quintela (1855–1911), Maria Joaquina Quintela (1856–?), and Carlos Pedro Quintela (1866–?). ==Distinctions==