This document discusses Portuguese painter and potter Manuel Cargaleiro. It notes that he studied ceramics in Italy and France on scholarships, and developed his work further at the Gien Faience Factory in France, sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. As a painter, Cargaleiro was known for his ornamental and decorative style in two-dimensional works like Portuguese tiles, and as a potter he is considered an artist for his signed and dated tiles.