Lorenzo de Nevers

Lorenzo de Nevers was born in Sainte Elphege de La Baie-du-Fevres, in Yamaska County, Quebec Province, in 1877. He studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at other institutions in Paris, and loved the City so much that he stayed there for 15 years. He returned to America at the beginning of World War I.

Lorenzo lived in different cities, moving around depending on where he could find commissions. He spent 17 years in New York, and also had studios in Woonsocket, Central Falls, and Providence, Rhode Island and in Montreal. He was known particularly for his portrait paintings. Among his works are portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, King Alphonse XIII of Spain and King Albert I of Belgium. He also painted many of the Franco-American leaders of his day. The artist died in 1967.