Lion, Jules, 1810-1866

LC control no.	nr 95023901
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lion, Jules, 1810-1866 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	France
Associated place	United States
Birth date	1810
Death date	18660106
Place of birth	France
Place of death	New Orleans (La.)
Affiliation	St. Charles Museum (New Orleans, La.) Louisiana Academy
Profession or occupation	Painters Printmakers Photographers Art teachers
Found in	Two centuries of black American art, 1976: p. 121 (Lion, Jules; painter, lithographer, daguerreotypist; b. France 1810; d. New Orleans 1866) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lion, Jules; painter, printmaker, photographer, art teacher; born c.1809 in France; received a traditional artistic education in Europe; his lithographs were exhibited at the Paris Salons: prints, including “L'affût aux canards” [Duck Blind]; lithographs after Van Dyck, Jacquand, Waltier, Boulanger (1836); immigrated to New Orleans; worked in a lithography shop opened by the newspaper L'Abeille (The Bee); produced daguerreotype views of the city (1839); newspapers praised his work exhibited at the St. Charles Museum (March 1840); opened his own studio (1843); made prints of local scenes, such as The Cathedral, New Orleans (1842) and View of Canal Street (1846); his best-known work is a series of more than 150 fine lithographs of prominent Louisianans and other leaders: the Protestant minister in New Orleans, the Reverend Theodore Clapp (1837), Judge François-Xavier Martin (1837), the family of the wealthy commission merchant Seaman Field, Eliza Dubourg Field and Her Daughters Eliza and Odilie (1838), William Freret (1839), Andrew Jackson (1840) and the legislator James Dunwoody Bronson DeBow (1847); opened an art school with Dominique Canova (1848); taught drawing at Louisiana Academy (1952); died 06 January 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)