Joseph-Charles Franchère
Joseph-Charles Franchère is a painter in Montreal, Quebec.Biography
A native of Montreal, Joseph-Charles Franchère studied painting at Conseil des arts et manufactures de la Province de Quebec, with Joseph Chabert and François-Xavier-Édouard Meloche. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and at the Académie Colarossi from 1888.
Admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, he sent his achievements to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He teaches in the institute founded by Joseph Chabert as well as at National monument.
Franchère notably painted for the chapel of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of the basilica of Our Lady of Montreal. Also an illustrator, he drew for his friend the abbot Lionel Groulx in a country style.
He died in 1921 in Montreal and was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.Works
La salle d'opération du Dr. Hingston.jpg|Dr. Hingston's operating room, 1905
