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Portrait painter Antoine Sébastien Plamondon was born in St. Roch, Québec in 1804. Plamondon began his art career at the age of fifteen, apprenticed to Joseph Legaré (1795-1855). Legaré was restoring paintings which had been shipped to Québec from France to be safe from the French Revolution and Plamondon learned to paint by helping him. In 1826 his talent was recognized by Vicar-General of Quebéc and he was sent to France to study further. there he studied under Paulin Guérin (1783-18550 who was portrait painter to Charles X. Travelling to Venice, Florence and Rome, he copied works of early Italian painters before returning to Québec. He painted over fifty portraits of upper bourgeoisie of Québec City. He is represented in collections across Canada such as Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, McGill University, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Art Gallery of Ontario and in many private collections. He died in Neuville, Québec in 1895.
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Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1970. p. 252-253.
MacDonald, Colin S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists. 1st ed., Canadian Paperbacks Pub, 1967. Vol. 8. p. 1724-1727.