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João Teixeira Albernaz I

João Teixeira Albernaz must have learned the craft from his father Luís Teixeira, starting his own work in the seventeenth century.

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João Teixeira Albernaz belonged to a prominent family of cartographers whose work extended from mid-sixteenth century until the late eighteenth century, including his father Luís Teixeira, uncle Domingos Teixeira, brother Pedro Teixeira Albernaz and grandson João Teixeira Albernaz, the younger, as well as Estevão Teixeira.

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