1. Edmond Dyonnet was a landscape painter, portraitist, photographer and educator.
24 Facts About Edmond Dyonnet
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Edmond Dyonnet was born in France and became a naturalised Canadian.
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Edmond Dyonnet was born on 25 June 1859 in Crest, Drome, France, to Ulysses-Alexandre Dyonnet, industrialist, and Goullioud Albine.
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Edmond Dyonnet was buried with his family in the cemetery of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, in Montreal.
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Leon Edmond Dyonnet made a fortune in corsets for women in association with Amyot from 1886 to 1891 and set up the Dominion Corset company, rue de la Couronne in Quebec City.
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At 9 years old, Edmond Dyonnet followed his father and emigrated to Italy, he continued his primary education in Turin, from 1868 to 1873, in municipal schools and then returned to France with his family in the Drome.
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Edmond Dyonnet studied at Crest high school from 1873 to 1875.
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In 1882, Edmond Dyonnet moved to Labelle, Quebec in the Laurentian mountains.
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Ulysses Edmond Dyonnet was a pioneer; he cleared land and resumed two mills, a sawmill and a flour mill.
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The young Edmond Dyonnet stayed in Montreal, where he studied drawing at the National Institute of Fine Arts from 1875 to 1881.
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When he returned to Canada in 1890, Edmond Dyonnet settled in Montreal and taught in the school founded by Abbe Joseph Chabert.
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Edmond Dyonnet raised his three nephews and nieces, Alice Lorin, Gabrielle Lorin and Louis Gustave Lorin.
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Edmond Dyonnet was interested in many things and never stopped reading books.
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Edmond Dyonnet was famous as a landscape painter and portraitist, especially among the wealthy and cultivated citizens of Montreal.
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Edmond Dyonnet was one of the founders of the School of Fine Arts with Alfred Laliberte and Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote.
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Edmond Dyonnet taught there from 1922 to 1925, and became professor of drawing at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, at the Conseil des Arts et Metiers of Quebec, and at McGill University.
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Edmond Dyonnet trained thousands of students including Narcisse Poirier, Clarence Gagnon, Thomas Garside, Alexander Young Jackson, Marc-Aurele Fortin and Jack Bush.
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Edmond Dyonnet was a member of the Art Association of Montreal.
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Edmond Dyonnet was a member of the Pen and Pencil Club, and a member of the Arts Club.
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Edmond Dyonnet lived a long time in Montreal at 1207 Bleury Street.
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Edmond Dyonnet never painted religious paintings, although Quebec was very influenced by Catholicism.
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Edmond Dyonnet's work is varied and numerous, distributed in many private collections and museums.
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Edmond Dyonnet's inspirations were Nicolas Poussin and Claude Gellee, two great painters of the seventeenth century.
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Edmond Dyonnet received a silver medal at the Buffalo exposition in 1901 and at the Canadian exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.