Gabriela de Mendonça Santos speaks at a session on the legacy of Anastácio Gonçalves

Gabriela de Mendonça Santos, senior associate in PLMJ's Dispute Resolution practice, was invited to participate in a session on the legacy of a great 20th century art patron. António Anastácio Gonçalves was a doctor and collector who bequeathed a valuable art collection to the Portuguese state, which is open to the public at the Dr Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum.

To mark the centenary of his death, the Casa-Museu is organising various initiatives and has invited PLMJ to contribute to the session dedicated to his legacy, in order to talk about the various legal issues involved.

The current Casa-Museu, a mansion next to the PLMJ's headquarters in Lisbon, was designed by the architect Norte Júnior in 1904-05 and built by the painter José Malhoa as his home and studio. Awarded the Valmor Prize in 1905, the first artist's house in the capital was part of the city's urban growth plan. The Casa-Malhoa was acquired in 1932 by Dr Anastácio Gonçalves, who lived there and organised his collection until his death.

In 1969, by the collector's express will, the building was bequeathed to the Portuguese State for the creation of a museum, which opened to the public in 1980.

In 2019, after new improvements were made to the area around the construction of the FPM Tower, the House-Museum benefited from new exhibition and reserve spaces, and a section dedicated to the figure of the doctor-collector António Anastácio Gonçalves (1888-1965) was created.