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Am\u00e9lia Beauharnais Leuchtenberg, Empress of Brazil and wife of King Pedro IV of Portugal, and first Emperor of Brazil, half-length, turned three-quarters to the right, looking forward, after an engraving by Jean-Baptiste Aubry-Lecomte (1787-1858) held in the Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo.<br \/>\r\nDaughter of the then Viceroy of Italy, Eug\u00e8ne de Beauharnais, and Princess Augusta Amelia, daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria, D. Am\u00e9lia was, on her paternal side, granddaughter of Josephine de La Pagerie, wife of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.<br \/>\r\nEducated in Munich, at the age of 17 she set off for Rio de Janeiro, with the purpose of marrying D. Pedro I of Brazil, widowed since 1826 of D. Leopoldina of Habsburg, and of becoming the second Empress of Brazil.<br \/>\r\nThe empress would accompany her husband and her stepdaughter, D. Maria da Gl\u00f3ria, to Europe, where the couple, now using only the title of Duke and Duchess of Bragan\u00e7a, would see the birth of their only daughter, Marie Am\u00e9lie, on 1 December 1831.<br \/>\r\nShortly thereafter D. Pedro departed for the Azores, only rejoining his wife and daughters in 1833.<br \/>\r\nWith the death of D. Pedro in 1834, D. Am\u00e9lia was widowed at the age of twenty-two, returned to Munich, and shortly afterwards returned definitively to Portugal. In Lisbon, she lived between the Pal\u00e1cio das Janelas Verdes, site of the present-day Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, and the Real Quinta de Caxias, devoting her life to the poor and the sick, never losing contact with the stepchildren she had left behind in Brazil, children of D. 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