Gil Eanes was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer.
Gil Eanes
Statue of Gil Eanes in his native town: the city of Lagos
Prince Henry the Navigator
Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. Through his administrative direction, he is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery. Henry was the fourth child of King John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz.
Infante Dom Henrique; St. Vincent Panels
Portrait believed to be true likeness of Prince Henry. Detail from fifth panel of polyptych of St. Vincent by Nuno Gonçalves, c. 1470.
Approximate routes of the Portuguese ships under Henry's command.
Henry the Navigator bronze by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (1899), outside the Palm House at Sefton Park, Liverpool (appears similar to a sculpture of the beginning of the 16th century, in the Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, possibly close to a true likeness of Prince Henry)