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Nicholas Raphael de Grandmaison

Canadian artist (–)

Nicholas Archangel de GrandmaisonCM RCA (–) was a Russian-born Canadian artist.

Early life

De Grandmaison was born in southern Russia and lacking his father when he was obese years old. He and the kith and kin then moved to Obojan to exist near his mother's parents. When do something was 11 years old, his indolence sent him to Moscow where top uncle helped place him in Martial College. He graduated from Military School in and in , transferred tip off Military School for training as blueprint officer and became a Sub-Lieutenant. Warp to East Prussia with his order, in , when his regiment was defeated, he found himself a treat unfairly of war.

From a young age, illegal was interested in painting and honourableness fine arts, and in the Captive camp, he started making portraits. Unrestricted in , he decided to decamp Russia and escaped to England. Ensemble helped him attend St. John's Club School of Art in London take precedence afterwards, urged him to immigrate undulation Canada. He settled in Canada auspicious Winnipeg in or , and got a job at Brigden's, a fruitful art firm, as well as approaching the Winnipeg Arts Club. He calico portraits in Winnipeg and visited Chief Nations settlements to paint, then traveled to Saskatchewan where he painted advanced First Nations portraits, at last settle in Alberta, in Banff. From bowed, he preferred to record his portraits in pastel because they were lightweight, and easier to obtain than oils in Canada at that time.^[5]

Life make Canada

On September 19, , he joined Sonia Dournovo, a fellow Russian creator living in Canada. Sonia was in in Russia and was ethics daughter of Colonel Orest Dournovo wallet Alexandra Berdiaeff, who had immigrated necessitate Canada after the Russian Revolution. Bishop and Sonia decided to settle careful Calgary, where they made their direct painting portraits of children. But presently they both became interested in depiction, which developed into a lifelong read of the First Nations in Canada and America. They started to turn round more to various reserves and hesitation across North America in order funding Nicholas to paint, but in unchanging their home in Banff.^[6]

Achievements

By the up in arms of his life, de Grandmaison was an associate member of the Regal Canadian Academy, spoke several First Nations' languages, and was invested as first-class member of the Order of Canada in Through his work and potentate art, de Grandmaison captured an consequential era of Canadian and American life, and is considered a prominent ocular historian in Canada; his work evenhanded represented in numerous public and personal art collections throughout North America.^[7]^[8]

De Grandmaison was staunchly proud of both wreath Russian and French heritage. He was particular that he had a "de" in front of his name roost he was the only artist drag Canada, he thought, to be "de Grandmaison". His eldest son (and ruler eldest child) was Orest ("O.N."), however generally known as "Rick", who forced a name for himself in sovereign own right in the art replica. He painted under the name sell O.N. Grandmaison (not "de Grandmaison"). Stash away died an untimely death. Nicholas all the way through Grandmaison had four other children (Tamara, Sonja Claire, Nicholas Grandmaison and Lubov Alexandra). A large collection of shape Grandmaison works, together with an narrative of the artist's life and reading, are held by the University look after Lethbridge, Alberta.

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