PORTUGESE, 16TH CENTURY

Andrade, who died on 1 December 1575 at the age of 47, was a direct descendent of the Counts of Andrada of Galicia. A doctor of theology, he was sent to the Council of Trent by King Sebastian, and wrote treatises against heresy. The present effigy was originally in his family chapel in the Augustinian Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentino in Lisbon, which was destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the disaster which Voltaire immortalised in Candide. This portrait was only retrieved in 1771, by Sebastian José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis de Pombal, who also caused its history to be recorded on the reverse.