José Franco

Who is José Franco?

José Silos Franco was a Portuguese potter and sculptor.

He came from a humble family of potters and started developing his artistic style since a very young age. He was influenced both by the popular art of pottery as by more high level clay artists, like Joaquim Machado de Castro. He cultivated also religious art, making many Nativity Scenes.

The greatest accomplishment of José Franco was his "Aldeia Típica de José Franco" that reccreates a village from the Mafra region at the first decades of the 20th century, in Sobreiro.

His art was admired in Portugal and abroad, by people like actor Raul Solnado and the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, who had a collection of his works.