Brief Biography-Aurélia de Souza was a Portuguese impressionist painter. She was born in Chile; the family moved to Portugal when she was three. Aurélia first took lessons at sixteen and entered the Fine Arts Academy of Porto at twenty-three; João Marques de Oliveira was her master there. In 1898, she studied at the Julian Academy, Paris, before travelling around Europe with her sister Maria Estela for three years. Aurélia spent the remainder of her life in Porto, where, along with her paintings, Aurélia did illustrations for the magazine Portugalia and the storybook Perfis Suaves by Júlio Brandão. She died in Porto in 1922. Some of her works are on view in the National Museum Soares dos Reis and the Marta Ortigão Sampaio House Museum, Porto.