Miguel Montez Leal (b. 1970) in Cartaxo (Santarém) and obtained his phd. in History of Contemporary Art with the theme "The Resurgence of Decorative Painting in Lisbon's Palatial Interiors: from Regeneration to the Eve of the Republic (1851-1910)" defended and presented at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in February of 2015. Also at the same institution he defended his Master's thesis (2006) "Fresh painting between two centuries: Pereira Cão (1841-1921) and decorative painting in Portugal" and carried out a " Postgraduate in Educational Training" (1993-1995). He graduated in History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1992(1988-1992). In addition to this academic career he has a postgraduate degree in European Studies - Legal Dominance at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1992-1993) and attended most of class(Cursillos de Doctorado) of the "Doctorado in Modern Historia Moderna de España (Sociedad y Política en la España Moderna, siglos XV-XVIII)", at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1996-1999), Facultad de Geografía y Historia, being a student, among others, of José Niceto Alcalá-Zamora Queipo de Llano, Carlos Gómez-Centurión, Fernando Bouza Alvarez., Magdalena de Pazzis Pi Corrales... In terms of his professional career, he was a History teacher in the 10th Group A (1994-96/2003) and a freelance Specialist Guide (between August 2015 and September 2023). Currently, he is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Art History and an integrated researcher at the Institute of History of Art, belonging to the Lisbon Studies Research Group, to which he contributes with conference presentations and the production of academic articles and books in the fields of History and History of Art. He dedicates himself, in particular, to the study of the 19th century in Portugal, the long Portuguese romanticism, and investigates the study of the career and work of the fresh and muralist painter, José Maria Pereira Cão (1841-1921), the several 19th century painters and early 20th century, the palatial architecture of the 18th and 19 th centuries, tiles and also genealogical research of the owners and comissioners of that palatial buildings(Manor Houses). He is a corresponding member of the Instituto Português de Heráldica, is part of the Centro de Estudos Professor Doutor Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, from the Associação Portuguesa de Historiadores de Arte and he belongs to the " Grupo Saudade Perpétua", Estudos do Romantismo. He 's a chronicler in the regional press since 1994 and a published poet and genealogist. He was a member of the Commission for the Centenary of the birth of playwright Marcelino Mesquita(1856-1919), in 2006; he was the President of the Commission for the 200 Years of the Elevation of Cartaxo to Vila (2015) and member, as a citizen, of the Commission for the hundred years of the death(1856-1919) of this same playwright in 2019. He is part of the Municipal Toponymy Commission of his hometown, Cartaxo (district of Santarém).