Lion, Jules
Birth Date: ca. 1810-21 Place: France
Death Date: Jan. 10, 1866 Place: New Orleans, LA
Active in New Orleans: 1837-66
Artistic Focus: painter, printmaker, art teacher
Gender: male
Ethnicity: Black/African-American
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Death Date: Jan. 10, 1866 Place: New Orleans, LA
Active in New Orleans: 1837-66
Artistic Focus: painter, printmaker, art teacher
Gender: male
Ethnicity: Black/African-American
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NOCD 1837-38, 1841-43, 1851-56, 1858, 1860-61, 1866. Bee, Mar. 14, 17, 18, Nov. 5, 1840, Dec. 13, 1842, Jan. 3, 5, Nov. 28, 1843, Apr. 7, Nov. 30, 1848, Aug. 31, Sept. 1, 1852, Oct. 12, 1865; Comm. Bull., Oct. 2, 1856; Courier, Jan. 16, Mar. 10, 13, 14, Apr. 2, 11, 1840, Apr. 8, Sept. 12, Nov. 30, 1848, Dec. 26, 1851, June 11, Dec. 28, 1852, Mar. 1, 1857; D. Crescent, Sept. 8, 1849; D. Delta, Apr. 18, 1850, July 14, 1860; D. Pic., Mar. 17, 20, 22, 29, 1840, Apr. 12, 14, 15, May 12, 13, 14, 1841, Oct. 2, 1856; T. Pic., Jan. 12, 1975, July 25, 1976, Jan. 28, 1979, Aug. 8, 1982; T. Pic.-States, Mar. 24, 1940; Wkly. Delta, Apr. 22, 1850. Almanach de la Louisiane (1867): following 32, 80, 119; Benezit, 594; Birth Certificate of Jules Lion's son, Nov. 6, 1857; Blumenthal, American and French Culture, 292; Bruns, 314; Chambon, Cathedral, 30; Coulon MS, 3; Dichter and Shapiro, 249, 252; Driskell, Black Art, 36, 38; Elder, Roquette, following 8; Fielding, Dictionary; Glenk, 77, 246; Groce and Wallace; Harter and Tucker, 122; Huber and Wilson, Basilica, 28; Huber and Wilson, Pontalba, 34; Korn, Jews, 142, 308; LSM, Biennial Report for 1922-23, 70; La. Historical Society catalog (1900): no. 261; La. Historical Society, Colonial Exhibit, 10-11; La. Landmarks Society and City of N.O., Gallier, no. 16; O'Neill, "Fine Arts and Literature," 71-73; Perry, Selections, n.p.; Peters, America on Stone, 267; Revue Louisianaise 1(1846): 465-66; Rinhart, Daguerrian Art, 124; Seebold, I:22; Smith and Tucker, 163; Smithsonian Institution, Inventory of American Paintings; Thieme & Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon, 261; U.S. Census (1850), roll 236; Wiesendanger, 66-68; Willis-Thomas, Black Photographers, 4-5; WPA, Louisiana, 163; WPA, New Orleans, 99.