Cozy Puppies Painting

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An unusual oil on board painting depicting 2 cozy puppies dozing in a luxurious bed by Lorenzo de Nevers (listed Canadian artist, active in Rhode Island.). Signed and dated lower left. In a gilt wood frame.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION from Wikipedia:
Lorenzo de Nevers
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Lorenzo de Nevers was born at Baie-du-Febvre (today called Saint-Elphège), county of Yamaska, Quebec, Canada, on June 13, 1877.

Eighth son of Abraham Boisvert and Marie Biron, he was part of the ninth generation in Quebec. The genealogy shows that at the fifth generation, the name ‘de Nevers’ was changed into ‘Boisvert’. Mr. Ernest Laforce, which grandmother was the sister of Lorenzo de Nevers’s grandmother, explains the change as follows:
Three ‘de Nevers’ established themselves at Baie Saint-Antoine (called Baie-du-Febvre). One of them chose to establish himself at Coteau du Bois Vert. In order to be able to identify him differently from the others, people were calling him: de Nevers from du Bois Vert, then Nevers known as Boisvert, then finally at the fifth generation: Boisvert only.
It is only in 1896, while the family had immigrated in Central Falls, Rhode Island, that Edmond, the elder brother, lawyer, decided to recuperate the family name ‘de Nevers’ using a private law that was in force in Rhode Island. Lorenzo became then ‘de Nevers’.

Lorenzo’ parents registered him to drawing courses in the Rhode Island School of Design. When he became a man, at about 17 years old, his brother Edmond, already studying in Paris, convinced his parents to send Lorenzo in Paris in order to study paintings. The parents agreed for a period of one year. Lorenzo came back fifteen years later.
In Paris, under the supervision of Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens, he followed during two years the Julian Academia courses which was, at the time, one of the best school. He was a colleague of Picasso and Borduas.
According to Rosaire Dion-Levesque, Lorenzo was admitted to Paris Fine Arts in 1902. He spent ten years under the supervision of painting masters such as Gabriel Ferrier and Léon Bonnat. He arrived ninth on 400 when he competed at the Rome Grand Prix.

At the time, it was very common, more than today, that a beginner as well as more advanced artists copy masterpieces, the first to be able to improve, the second to reproduce paintings that were requested on the market. However, there was an important rule to respect: the copy could never be the same size of the original.
In the history archives of Canadian art, published by ‘Owl’s Head Press’ for the Concordia University (Volume II, no 1, summer 1975), a study presented by Mr. Laurier Lacroix from Paris-X-Nanterre University, informs us on ‘the Canadian artists copyist in Louvre (1838-1915), John Lyman (1886-1967), the couple Dubé, Cornélius Krieghoff (1815-1872), Joseph-Charles Franchère (1891).
Author Copied Work Date
Benouville Saint-François d’Assise bénit la ville d’Assise 21 March 1900
Rosa Bonheur Labourage 20 September 1900
Boucher La toilette de Vénus 12 June 1900
Boucher Pastorale (Le nid) 10 avril 1902
Boucher Berger et bergère 16 September 1905
Brascassat Paysage et animaux 30 August 1905
Brawer (Adriaen) Le fumeur 19 December 1901
Chardin Le bénédicté 28 November 1902
Courbet (Gustave) Chevreuil sous bois 9 March 1900
Daubigny (Charles François) Le printemps 28 February 1901
Flandrin (Jean-Hyppolyte) Portrait de jeune fille 23 May 1900
Fromentin (Eugène) La chasse au faucon en Algérie 26 January 1900
Greuze (J.B.) La laitière 28 February 1901
Greuze (J.B.) L’accordée du village 3 October 1905
Huet (Jean-Baptiste) Chien attaquant deux oies 3 February 1900
Huignon Avoine en fleur 22 November 1899
Murillo Le jeune mendiant 5 April 1905
Ollivier (M. Barthelemy) Le thé à l’anglaise 11 October 1901
Rembrandt Portrait d’un jeune homme 14 April 1907
Reni Ecce Homo 4 August 1900
Teniers Le fumeur 30 August 1900
Teniers (David) Paysage et intérieur de ferme 1er May1900
Vicelli (Tiziano) Alphonse de Ferrare et Laurre de Dante 25 September 1900
Troyon (Constant) Bœufs se rendant au labour 5 February 1902
Vernet (Claude Joseph) Paysage, les baigneuses 29 January 1906
Le Brun Portrait de Mme Lebrun et de sa fille 24 May 1901
Le Brun ( Mme E.L. Vigée) La paix ramenant l’abondance 7 April 1901
Lorenzo also had a very nice baritone voice. He played on occasion at the Odeon and the Comic Opera, playing Excamillo in Carmen and Valentin in Faust.
He left Europe definitely in 1914 because of the war and established himself in Central Falls where his brothers were. Then he moved to Providence, New York, Central Park South where he stayed for 17 years and the Montreal for few years. In 1952 he came back to Central Falls. He travelled often to Montreal and Saint-Hyacinthe where he had many friends of which Mr and Mrs Henry Duprat and Madam’s sister (Rollande) and the painter Irène Legendre.
According to Philippe A. Lajoie, in US, on top of the portraits the old presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Thomas E. Dewey, New York’s governor, and Aram J. Pothier, Rhode Island’s governor, he painted the portraits of :
Hugo A. Dubuque, first French-American juge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, portrait ordered by Calumet Club and was as of March 1972 in the hands of Fall River Independent newspaper of which he was a co-founder in 1885;
Portraits full size in the principal office of ‘Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d’Amérique’ in Woonsocket : Mr. Henri T. Ledoux, of Nashua, N.H., third president ; J. Adélard Philias I. Jalbert, second director of ‘Caisse de l’Écolier de laSociété’;
Portraits of French-American mayors of Manchester, N. H.;
Portraits of four presidents of ’Association Canado-Américaine; Théophile B. Biron, Dr. Armand A.E. Brien, the juges Elphège J. Daignault and Adolphe Robert.
At Capitole of Rhode Island State and on the wall of ’Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d’Amérique’ and ’Association Canado-Américaine’, people can admire about thirty paintings from Lorenzo de Nevers.
In West of Canada, at the Prince-Albert Diocese in Saskatchewan, he decorated the cathedral as well as Mgr Prudhomme’s private chapel.
In Montreal, he painted former prime ministers such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Louis Stephen Saint-Laurent; then Jacob Nichols, Cardinal Léger, Esioff Patenaude, lieutenant-governor (the painting disappeared in the fire at Bois de Coulonge on February 20, 1966), and the former Montreal mayor, Camilien Houde.
[edit]Recognitions

Lorenzo de Nevers has also done some landscape paintings. During his long career, over fifty years, he painted at least one thousand five hundred landscapes that are decorating homes in France, Belgium, Canada and United States. On Sundy February 25, 1962, in Pawtucket, R.I. Lorenzo de Nevers was decorated with the medal from ‘Ordre du Mérite Franco-Américain’.
In 1965 he joined his brother Wilfrid at Saint-Antoine hospice in Woonsocket and then he died at Fogarty Hospital on March 29, 1967 at 89 years old.

Lysander & Susan Flagg Museum and Cultural center. “Lorenzo De Nevers”. Website: The Central Falls Free Public Library.
Categories: Canadian painters | Artists from Quebec | 1877 births | 1967 deaths | People from Centre-du-Québec

Dimensions:
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Early 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1918
Condition:
Very good.
Seller Location:
Essex, MA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: U1011298377670