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Lobo, Silvestre de Faria
(b Lisbon, bapt 7 Jan 1725; d Lisbon, 11 April 1786). Portuguese carver and sculptor. He was the leading wood-carver at the court of Joseph I (reg 1750–77) and was a pupil of João Frederico Ludovice. In 1766 he was appointed judge of carving in the guild of cabinetmakers. He began work around 1752 as a master carver at the royal palace of Queluz, near Lisbon (begun 1746), where he worked until c. 1777 and supervised a team of craftsmen. He played an important role in carrying out the carved decoration in the palace, notably in the Room of the Ambassadors, or Hall of Mirrors, where he carved the door pelmets. In the music-room he worked on the beautiful ceiling, which shows the influence of central European decoration. In the former throne-room, completed c. 1768 and built during the second phase of construction of the palace that started in 1758, he was assisted among others by the French decorator Antoine Collin; the curved white-and-gold ceiling is strewn with delicate French Rococo tendril motifs.
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