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painting (portrait)
Louis Joseph Marquis de Montcalm

O-2022
painting (portrait)
Louis Joseph Marquis de Montcalm

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Specifications

Artists Théophile Hamel (Artist)
Date 1865
Inscriptions
MARQUIS de MONTCALM 1712 - 1759
ESTABLISHED 1842 Roberts & Son... ART GALLERY 79 King Street West TORONTO // Telephone 1926
Montcalm Gozon de Saint Veran Born near Nimes, France, 29th Feby, 1712 Died in Québec, 14th Sept 1759. copy by Hamel
Materials paint, oil
Support canvas
Personal Names Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Dimensions (cm) 68.0 (Width)85.3 (Height)1.5 (Thickness)
Functions Art
Barcode 602656
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Théophile Hamel

Théophile Hamel was born in 1817 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, and studied art in Quebec and in many of the great cultural centres of Europe. He was an astute business man and a tremendously successful artist, and the National Gallery of Canada calls him “one of early Canada’s greatest portrait painters.” In 1853 the government of the United Canadas appointed him official portrait painter, and tasked him with creating portraits of all Speakers since 1791, many of which were copied from portraits held by families or elsewhere. His subjects also included the generals Montcalm and Wolfe, and many other eminent figures of early Canada.