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Luís Esteves Fernandes 1897-1988


My father, Luís Esteves Fernandes was born in 1897 in Lisbon, Portugal. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Law of Lisbon University, health-related problems forced Luís to defer entering the legal profession. He read profusely during his convalescence, including in particular, books and articles on the Orient. Once recovered, he decided to drop his original intention to practice Law and instead, took and passed the entrance examinations for the diplomatic service.


After a stint in the Cipher Section of the Foreign Ministry, Luís was named in 1925, Third Secretary to the Portuguese Legation in Peking, where he remained until 1931. He witnessed with sympathy the upsurge of Chinese protests against the so-called ‘Unequal Treaties’ and the foreign-run concessions, as well as resistance to Japanese aggression. As a rule, Portugal, whose main concern was to safeguard Macau’s status, closely aligned its stance with that of Britain. This gave the young diplomat time to indulge his passion for Chinese culture and art. His admiration for China and its cultural heritage – reflected in a book written in Peking in 1926 - earned him the respect and friendship of members of the Chinese intelligentsia, as well as of the Peking antique dealers from whom he obtained invaluable insights on how to distinguish genuine pieces of art from imitations and objects made solely for Western tastes. Thus, began Luís’s life-long quest for Far Eastern antiquities. China was always to be the fulcrum of his interest but a six-year assignment as Portuguese Minister to Japan during World War II (1939-45), led him to extend his collection to Japanese fine arts.


Wherever he was stationed – pre-war Paris and London, Geneva (League of Nations) and after the war as Portuguese Ambassador to Washington (1950-61), Luís devoted much of his leisure time to the selection of carefully chosen antiquities.


Luís Esteves Fernandes died in 1988 bequeathing me, his sole heir, the collection.


Roberto Medeiros Fernandes, Lisbon, 4 March, 2013


路易斯•艾斯塔凡•法納得 (1897-1988)


我的父親路易斯•艾斯塔凡•法納得出生於1897年的葡萄牙的首都里斯本。當法納得在里斯本大學的法學系畢業以後,健康狀況問題使得 他不得不推遲他从事法律工作。但他並沒有繼續深造,而是阅讀了大量的關於亞洲歷史和藝術的書籍。康復之後,他做了一個改變他一生的決 定:他改變了職業方向,參加並通過了外交官考試。


在葡萄牙政府機密部門翻譯冗長乏味的機密電碼之後,法納得先生被任命為葡萄牙駐華團隊的第三秘書並隨團前往北京直到1931年。在此 期間他經歷了中國人民強烈抗議不平等條約和之後的抗日戰爭時期。與當時的大英帝國一樣,葡萄牙在澳門執行總督,這給予年輕的外交官充 分的時間去學習中國的歷史文化及其藝術品。1926年,他在北京撰寫了一本關於駐華外交官和機密電碼翻譯員的書之後結識了許多出自香門第 的貴族和北京古董商。從他們那裡開始學習如何分辨哪些是老的古董,哪些是新仿並用於出口西方國家的。從此開始,法納得先生真正開始了 他對於亞洲藝術品收集的道路。雖然中國古董藝術品一直是法納得最大的收藏興趣所在,但是第二次世界大戰時期他被指派去日本進行為期六 年的外交生涯,使他收藏範圍擴展到了日本藝術品。


然而無論是之後被派往戰前的法國、倫敦、日內瓦,還是之後作為駐美國華盛頓的葡萄牙外交官(1950-1961),法納得先生將大部分的 休閒時間都用於精心挑選亞洲藝術品来丰富他的收藏。


路易斯•艾斯塔凡•法納得在1988年去世,留給我(他的唯一繼承人)他畢生的收藏。


羅伯特•曼德羅•法納得 2013年3月4日 寫於里斯本


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