This article addresses the portrayal of men in government, especially the Constituent Cortes in 1820, in the Luso-Brazilian world. Focuses especially on two imagistic series, the collection of Silva Oeirense and the other gallery made by Domingos Antonio de Sequeira noticing in which ways these images have become a sort of biographical device for these deputies capable of expressing their character wrinkled by moderation. Searches also to point out some distinctions in these images on the portraiture of the time. Overall, it indicates a self ordinance through the senses and changes in portraiture of a layer of scholars, Luso-Brazilians merchants, bachelors, editors, who have been invested and self invested the ability to govern.
portrait; visual culture; Luso-Brazilian empire
