Biografie von J. B. POINTEL DU PORTAIL (XIX)

Birth place: France

Addresses: New Orleans, active 1836-before 1844; Baton Rouge, LA, by 1844

Profession: Portrait, landscape, and flower painter; lithographer; teacher; daguerreotypist

Studied: Jacques-Louis David, Léon Cogniet, and Redouté, Paris

Exhibited: Louisiana Grand State Fair, 1844 (cert. for portraits)

Comments: Active in Paris from c. 1820. Was described in 1836 New Orleans newspaper as having come from France. Produced lithographic portraits of many leading New Orleans residents, was lithographer at New Orleans Bee, and one of the earliest daguerreotypists in New Orleans (1840). Cf. M.L. de Pontelli.

Sources: G&W; G&W had separate listings for J.B. Pointel and M. Pontel du Portail; however Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists shows him as one artist, and includes references: New Orleans CD 1838; Bee, Nov. 11, 1836; Apr. 5, Nov. 22, 1837; Feb. 11, April 9, 1840; Courier, June 11, 1838, Mar. 7, 1839; and Picayune, Jan. 14, 1844. See also Benezit, vol. 8 (under Pointel Du Portail).