João Batista da Costa (1865 - 1926) was a Brazilian painter and illustrator.
Son of Francisco José da Costa and Emília da Costa. After a childhood in poverty spent in the Asylum of Underprivileged Boys in Rio de Janeiro, Batista da Costa entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1885 with the support of Baron de Mamoré, Minister of the Empire.
In 1894 conquered, with the picture Em rest, the Prize of Travel to Europe in the first General Exhibition of Fine Arts of the Republican period. He went to Paris in 1896, where he studied at the Académie Julian.
Back in Brazil in 1898, he exhibited at the Postal House in Rio de Janeiro, presenting his European production. In 1900, he won the second class gold medal at the General Exhibition of Fine Arts and in 1904 the first class with the box End of the day.
He married in Rio de Janeiro on September 23, 1905 with Noêmi Gonçalves Cruz, sister of the physician Osvaldo Cruz. They had four children.
From 1906, he was a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, an institution he directed from 1915 and where he worked until his death.
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