Mark Schuler: Serpa Pinto

Artist: Mark Schuler
1951 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1980
Image Size: 9 by 11 inches
Overall Size: 15 by 17 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Hot Press Illustration Board

Portuguese army officer and explorer Serpa Pinto was born in the castle of Polchras, near the shore of the Duero River, in 1846. He spent his childhood in America with his father who emigrated in 1848, but Serpa Pinto returned to Portugal and from 1858 to 1864 he attended the Military School of Lisbon, then joined the army as an infantry lieutenant. He was assigned to duty in Africa to help maintain order in the Portuguese colonies. Until the nineteenth century, Europeans knew very little about the African interior. This, coupled with economic and political factors, led to the great explorations of that century. Serpa Pinto excelled in his duties in Africa and, in 1877, was made a Major. This was also the year he set off on the two-year expedition that would take him across Africa traveling from west to east. Beginning at Benguela, he and his party journeyed to the Upper Zambezi, crossing a variety of terrain and gathering extensive facts that were important to the knowledge of Africa. On this trip the copper mines of Katanga were revealed, and this was the beginning of this rich natural resources part in the political changes in Africa. In 1881 Serpa Pinto wrote How I Crossed Africa, detailing his adventures. In 1889 he was made governor of Mozambique and later returned to Portugal where he died in Lisbon in 1900.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Portugal Europa stamp featured in the 1980 Portraits of Greatness collection.

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