Marie-Elmina Anger (December 24, 1844 – November 5, 1901) was a Catholic nun and artist in Quebec. She was also known as Sister Marie de Jésus.[1]
Biography
editThe daughter of Séraphin Anger and Rose de Lima Anger, she was born in Pointe-aux-Trembles (later Neuville), Lower Canada. She was educated by the Good Shepherd Sisters of Québec. She became a novice in 1860 and took her vows three years later. She was first assigned to teaching but, after her talent for painting was discovered, she began taking private lessons with a portrait artist Eugène Hamel.[2]
She painted more than sixty canvases on religious themes which can be found in churches in Quebec, Ontario and New England.[3] She also painted portraits of prominent Quebec religious figures, including Marie-Josephte Fitzbach, the founder of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Quebec, Élisabeth Bruyère, Émilie Tavernier, Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet, Archbishop Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau and Charles-Félix Cazeau.[1]
She died in Quebec City at the age of 56.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Jean, Marguerite (1994). "Marie-Elmina Anger". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ "Anger, Marie-Elmina". Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec (in French). Culture et Communications Québec.
- ^ "Notre Histoire" (PDF). Le Soleil Brillant (in French). Ville de Neuville. December 2013. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-08.
