b.1873, Montréal Quebec d.1954, Cataraqui, Quebec Portrait and landscape painter, sculptor, restorer, and teacher. Studied in Paris at Académie Julian, early 1890[?], and at Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1894. Studied sculpture under Auguste Thomas. Influenced by Impressionism. Painted landscapes in Brittany, New Hampshire, Quebec, Italy, and elsewhere in Europe and Great Britain. Operated his own art school in Paris, 1903-13, and in London, 1913-16. Worked on camouflage with the Architects' Central London Regiment during World War I. Exhibited at Paris Salons; Royal Academy, London; Art Association of Montreal; and elsewhere. Lived in London, 1913-35. In England, he was active as a restorer of paintings and as a consultant on the preservation of Old Masters. Also involved with the Art Workers' Guild and helped promote the art of tempera painting. Settlen in Cataraqui, near Quebec City, in 1935. At the time of his death he was designing a Gobelin tapestry (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto), which was subsequently completed by his wife, Catherine. (Source: Carol Lowrey, Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism, 1885-1920. Americas Society Art Galley, New York: 1995. p. 146.) Featured Work: Springtime in Canada 1903 Oil on canvas 97.9 x 135.4 cm Art Gallery of Hamilton, Gift of the Estate of the Artist, 1973