Glass negative from the Carlos Relvas Archive showing the front of his studio in 1876. Casa-Estúdio of Carlos Relvas (1838–1894) in Golegã, Portugal, designed by Relvas in 1872. The colossal photographic studio offered multiple areas to set up different environments for 170 ANTIQUES Relvas’s still-life compositions and portrait commissions. Are we to assume that mock humility motivated him to inscribe all his images with “Carlos Relvas, Amateur Photographer, Golegã Portugal”? MARIO DE CASTRO is editor in chief of Soon magazine and has written several books including Seaside Style (Taschen).\