Charles Ignace Adélard Gill
Charles Ignace Adélard Gill (21 October 1871 – 16 October 1918) was a Canadian artist, specializing in poetry and painting. He also worked under the alternate names of Clairon and Léon Duval.
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Charles Ignace Adélard Gill
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- Name
- Charles Gill
- Born
- 21 October 1871
- Birthplace
- Sorel, Quebec
- Field
- poet and painter
- Spouse
- Georgine Bélanger (Gaëtane de Montreuil), (m. 12 May 1902)
- Training
- Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Collège de Nicolet and Collège Saint-Laurent,
- Died
- 1918 · Montreal.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- poet · painter
- Education
- École des Beaux-Arts
- Languages
- French
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Charles Ignace Adélard Gill (21 October 1871 – 16 October 1918) was a Canadian artist, specializing in poetry and painting. He also worked under the alternate names of Clairon and Léon Duval.
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• Name — Charles Gill • Born — 21 October 1871 • Birthplace — Sorel, Quebec • Field — poet and painter • Spouse — Georgine Bélanger (Gaëtane de Montreuil), (m. 12 May 1902) • Training — Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Collège de Nicolet and Collège Saint-Laurent,
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He was born at Sorel, Quebec to Charles-Ignace Gill and Marie-Rosalie Delphire Sénécal. He studied at Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Collège de Nicolet and Collège Saint-Laurent, then George de Forest Brush, who was vacationing in Pierreville, undertook to develop Gill's talent for painting. As a result, he went to the Art Association of Montreal that 1888 to study with William Brymner. Encouraged by Brymner, he went to Paris and worked with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts. After returning to Montreal, he established his own studio in 1894. He also published poetry in the anthology Les soirées du Château de Ramesay (1900). After his death a volume of his poetry was published under the title Le Cap Eternité, poème suivi des étoiles filantes (1919). Gill had one son, Roger-Charles, with his wife Georgine Bélanger (a.k.a. Gaëtane de Montreuil, m. 12 May 1902). He died at Montreal from the 1918 flu pandemic just short of his 47th birthday.
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1871
Charles Ignace Adélard Gill was born on 21 October 1871.
1918
Charles Ignace Adélard Gill died on 16 October 1918.
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