Théophile Hamel
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Théophile-Abraham Hamel was a Canadian artist who painted mainly portraits and religious images in 19th-century Quebec.
Théophile Hamel, self-portrait c. 1837
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain
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Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent French colony in Nor
Théophile Hamel
…day. Hamel also painted religious pictures for various commissions, and a series of "imaginative" or "semi-imaginative" portraits of Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Jean Talon, Montcalm, and General James Murray. The image of Cartier even appeared on a banknote. It is estimated that Hamel painted more than 2000…
Detail from "Défaite des Iroquois au Lac de Champlain", Champlain Voyages (1613). This self-portrait is the only surviving contemporary likeness of the explorer.
Sir Sandford Fleming Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia – Stone from Samuel de Champlain's birthplace in Brouage, France (1574)
Champlain and guide in Isle La Motte, Vermont, at the site Champlain is said to have first set foot in Vermont (and encamped) in 1609. Lake Champlain is in the background. (Sculptor E.L.Weber, 1967; Photo by Matt Wills, 2009)