Baptista_Marciano

Marciano Baptista By Joe Baptista First published in UMA Bulletin Vol 29 No. 3 Jul-Sep 2006 My great-grandfather Marciano A. Baptista is considered Macao’s finest 19th Century painter, yet comparatively little is known about his life. He was born in Macau in 1826 and died in 1896 in Hongkong. In 1840s he began working for George Chinnery, the celebrated Irish painter […]