Napoléon Bourassa

• Name — Napoléon Bourassa • Born — 1827 • Birthplace — L'Acadie, Quebec, Canada • Died — 1916 • Place of death — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Known for — architect and artist • Illustration — Maison Bourassa in Montebello, Québec

Born in L'Acadie, Quebec, to François Bourassa, and Geneviève Patenaude. He studied at Sulpician College in Montreal. In 1848, he interned with Norbert Dumas in preparation for a legal career, but then chose to become a painter and studied with Theophile Hamel from 1850 to 1852. He continued his education by visiting Paris, Rome and Florence accompanied by the German painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck, a member of the Nazarene movement. After this he established his art studio in Montebello.

Napoléon Bourassa was married to Azélie Papineau, the daughter of the Quebec politician Louis-Joseph Papineau. In 1869 his wife died, leaving him to raise their five children. One of their sons was Henri Bourassa, a journalist and the founder of the newspaper Le Devoir.

• St. Anne Shrine Church, Fall River Massachusetts: with architect (with Louis G. Destremps) • Church of Montebello, Montebello, Quebec, architect • Dominican convent of Saint-Hyacinthe • Chapel of the Ladies of Sacred Heart • Chapelle Notre Dame de Lourdes de Montréal • Chapelle du Manoir Louis-Joseph Papineau • Church of Montebello, Quebec • St. Anne Shrine (Fall River, Massachusetts) • Church of Saint-Hugues • Church of Saint-Ours • Renovation of the Saint Hyacinthe the Confessor Cathedral of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec

• Illustration — La Misère (1865) • Illustration — Louis-Joseph Papineau (1858) • Illustration — Hippolyte Fissiault dit Laramée (1860) • Illustration — Deposition de croix (1867) • Illustration — Les Petits Pêcheurs (1865) • Illustration — Francois Bourassa, (father of Napoleon Bourassa) (1851) • Illustration — Madame Francois Bourassa, nee Genevieve Patenaude, mother of Napoleon Bourassa (1851) • Illustration — La Peinture mystique (1896-1897) • Illustration — La Méditation (1896–97) • Illustration — 2021 St. Anne's Church, Fall River, Massachusetts • Illustration — Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Chapel, on Saint-Catherine street, Montreal • Illustration — Church of Montebello, Montebello, Quebec • Illustration — Louis-Joseph Papineau