Bringing the past to life: Brazilian artist turns historic black and white photographs into stunning colour images using painstaking research

RCAF Squadron Pilot Officer John D. Flintoff of 440 (City of Ottawa) RCAF Squadron pictured after being shot down in 1945 

The assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, pictured, was responsible for the start of the First World War

General William T Sherman, pictured,  was one of the most effective military leaders during the US Civil War

When most people consider Abraham Lincoln, they envisage a man with a beard and a top hat

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

This picture was taken of Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on their wedding day, September 12, 1953

Marina Amaral, 21, from Brazil, chose well known characters - including Virginia Woolf (pictured) - and used detailed research to ensure original colours were represented

This September 1942 image was taken in New York's Central Park and shows people gathered round a drinking fountain in on a  Sunday

Manfred von Richthofen, better known as The Red Baron was the top ace of the First World War with 80 victories 

This photograph features Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi by Ansel Adams

A family are drinking from a water fountain in Central Park New York during 1942 in a photograph in the Library of Congress

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in November 1963

Pilot Wm. C. Hopson, U.S. Mail Service Winter Flying Clothing after completing a flight into Omaha, Nebraska in the 1920s

This flag, being held by Captain Thomas H. Garahan was made in secret by a local French girl ahead of the town's liberation

Here a group of French boys stand looking at a German Panther tank which had been destroyed and burnt out

This Cree man, pictured, was photographed in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1903

Samuel Clemens, pictured here was somewhat better known by his pen name Mark Twain 

Alexander Graham Bell, pictured, is probably best known for inventing the telephone 

William Seward was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state and the man who brokered the deal to buy Alaska from Russia 

Napoleonic war veteran Sergeant Taria had his photo taken in his 70s or 80s several decades after hostilities ceased 

Lynn Davis 'Buck' Compton was a California Court of Appeal judge who served as the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, after being a Los Angeles cop and an officer with the 101st Airborne

Norwegian scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen led the first expedition to cross Greenland in the late 1800s

David Herold, pictured, was hanged aged 23 for his role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 

John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln, escaped the hangman's noose as he was shot by a union solider after the assassination

John Harrison Surratt, pictured, was involved in the assassination of Lincoln, but managed to flee to Canada before capture

Lewis Thornton Powell, pictured, attempted to murder Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state on the night of the assassination

Michael O'Laughlen grew up near John Wilkes Booth and was involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, however, he avoided execution and was sentenced to life imprisonment, however he died within two years of yellow fever 

Samuel Bland Arnold was a class mate of John Wilkes Booth and part of the Lincoln conspiracy. His life sentence was commuted by President Andrew Johnson and later wrote a book outlining his part in the conspiracy 

German born George Andrew Atzerodt, pictured, was hanged for his role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

 Edman Spangler, pictured, worked in the Ford Theater in Washinton where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, he was sentenced to six years in prison because he held John Wilkes Booth's horse while the actor murdered the president