Alfred Boisseau
| Alfred Boisseau | |
|---|---|
 Alfred Boisseau self-portrait 1842 | |
| Born |
Feb 1823 Paris |
| Died |
7 Oct 1901 Buffalo, NY |
| Known for | Painting |
Alfred Boisseau (1823 Paris - 1901, Buffalo) - Canadian artist of French origin, in his paintings depicting the life of the Indians and the Wild West.
He studied under Paul Delaroche, a fashionable Paris artist whose style combined neo-classicism and romanticism. From 1845-1847 in New Orleans, where his brother served as secretary to the French consul, he created his first paintings on Native themes - mostly of the Choctaw nation. His 1847 work Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, now in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848 before his return to America, where he taught art in New York from 1849 to 1852.[1]
By 1852 he was a daguerreotypist in Cleveland, Ohio, where he also advertised as a portrait and landscape painter, art teacher and art dealer.
In 1860 he moved to Canada, where he opened a succession of three photographic studios in Montreal and executed several paintings while secretary and bibliographer to the Institut canadien de Montréal. Near the end of his life he went to western Canada where he opened a studio in Brandon, Manitoba producing paintings of Plains natives. He died in Buffalo, NY, in 1901.
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