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ALLAMAND, Jeanne-Charlotte
- Born
- Lausanne, Switzerland, 1760
- Died
- Sainte Melanie, Quebec, 1839
- Biography synopsis
- Allamand married artist William Berczy, her painting teacher, in 1785 in Switzerland. In 1787 she studied painting and her husband worked as a copyist and miniaturist in Florence. They moved to London in 1790 where she exhibited two Italian scenes - In an Italian Kitchen - at the Royal Academy. In 1792 the Berczy's led a group of German immigrants to the United States and in 1794-1795, Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand took responsibility for leading them to Markham, Ontario. In 1798 they moved to Montreal where she taught art; Louise-Amélie Panet was one of there well-known students. Some portraits of her are held by the Royal Ontario Museum.
- Media used
- Painting
- File & Archive locations
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Berczy, William von Moll. "William von Moll Berczy: Lettres." Rapport de l'archiviste de la Province de Quebec pour 1940-1941 (1941): 1-93
- Historical Society of Mecklenburg, Upper Canada. German Canadian Yearbook. Toronto: 1975
- Karel, David. Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes et orfèvres Quebec: Museé du Québec, 1992
- Muir, Elizabeth Gillan.. "Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts." An Unrecognized Contribution : Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2022
- Roy, Julie. "Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand-Berczy, Fondatrice de Toronto et Femme d'esprit." Cap aux Diamants 66 (Summer 2001): 56-57
- Roy, Julie. "Une Ecriture feminine au temps des lumieres: la Correspondance de Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand-Berczy." Francophonies d'Amérique 7 (March 1997): 223-36
- Stagg, Ronald. "Allamand, Jeanne-Charlotte." Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, Toronto: University of Toronto - Laval University, 1988
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/allamand_jeanne_charlotte_7E.html - Tippett, Maria. By a Lady Toronto: Viking, 1992
