Gaspar Dias

Appearance of the Angel to Saint Roch, ca. 1584, in the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon

Gaspar Dias (died 1671), a Portuguese painter, studied at Rome under Raphael and Michelangelo, and on his return home devoted himself to the production of church pictures. He died at Lisbon.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dias, Gaspar". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.