Garcia Fernandes (1514 - died c. 1565)

• Was a Portuguese Renaissance painter.
• Garcia Fernandes was a pupil in the Lisbon workshop of Jorge Afonso.
• In the 1530s he worked in Coimbra for the monasteries of Santa Clara-a-Velha and of Santa Cruz.

• In 1533 and 1534, together with Cristóvão de Figueiredo and Gregório Lopes, he was responsible for the three painted altarpieces of the Monastery of Ferreirim, near Lamego. 

• Later, he painted panels for the transept of the Church of St Francis in Évora. 

• Garcia Fernandes married in 1518 and had at least nine children.

• His paintings can be seen in several churches and monasteries around Portugal, as well as in the Machado de Castro Museum (Coimbra).

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