Jacques Amans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Amans

French painter

Date of Birth: 29-May-1801

Place of Birth: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1888

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (1801–1888) was a French neoclassical portrait painter working in New Orleans in the 1840s and 1850s.Amans was born in Maastricht, a French city at the time.
His father, Paul Serge Amans, was born in Narbonne (F) in 1765, was a French officer (Capitaine-Adjudant de place de 1ère classe à Maastricht) of Napoléon.
Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was trained in the French neoclassical tradition of portraiture.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 to 1837.
News of fellow-artist Jean Joseph Vaudechamp’s good fortune in finding patrons probably led Amans to visit Louisiana since the two artists traveled on the same ship from France to New Orleans in about 1837.
Following Vaudechamp’s departure from Louisiana in 1839, Amans assumed the role as the most celebrated portraitist in Louisiana.
In the mid-1840s he married Azoline Landreaux, the daughter of a St.
Charles Parish sugar planter Pierre Honoré Landreaux and Joséphine Armant, and purchased Trinity Plantation on Bayou Lafourche.
Amans and Azoline moved back to France in 1856 where he died in 1888, château de Lévis Saint Nom (78), never having returned to Louisiana.



Alternative names	Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans
Description	American painter
Date of birth/death	29 May 1801	10 January 1888
Location of birth/death	Maastricht	Lévis-Saint-Nom
Work period	from 1836 until 1856 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1836-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1856-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	New Orleans
Authority control	: Q583015 VIAF: 122074047 ISNI: 0000 0000 8338 461X ULAN: 500028008 LCCN: no2001055370 RKD: 1448 WorldCat