Date Published:
June 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

Allan Edson

Edson, Allan (1846-1888), landscape painter, was born at Stanbridge, Missisquoi county, Lower Canada, in 1848. He studied painting in Paris, France, under Pelouse; and on his return to Canada he became a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy and of the Ontario Society of Artists. He died in 1888.

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada , 1948, 411p., p. 262.