(b Albuquerque, Castile, ?1548; d Lisbon, Sept 25, 1612). Spanish painter, active in Portugal. He became a leading exponent of Mannerist art in Portugal, where he is recorded in 1570 when he made a portrait (untraced; known from a copy, Lisbon, Comissão N. Comemorações Descobrimentos Port.) of the poet Luís de Camões (1524–80). Between 1570 and 1572 Gomes was in Delft as a pupil of Anthonie Blocklandt, and subsequently his style became characterized by a synthesis of those of Luis de Morales and of the Italianate Netherlandish painters. In 1573 he painted an Ascension for Funchal Cathedral, Madeira (in situ). For the Convento da Anunciada, Lisbon, he painted a mural of the Triumph of Obedience (1588; destr. 1755), influenced by the decrees of the Counter-Reformation, which is known from a preliminary drawing (Lisbon, Mus. N. A. Ant.) A preparatory drawing of the Ascension by Gomes (signed and dated 1599; Lisbon, Mus. N. A. Ant.) was possibly intended for a commission (untraced) for the Convento de Cristo at Tomar and is one of his most remarkable works, inspired by an engraving after Raphael’s ...