Biografie von Paul E. POINCY (1833-1909)

Birth place: New Orleans

Death place: New Orleans

Addresses: New Orleans

Profession: Portrait, religious, landscape, and genre painter

Studied: Académie Julian, Paris, c.1852-58; …cole des Beaux-Arts; also with Marc-Gabriel-Charles Gleyre and Léon Cogniet in Paris.

Exhibited: frequently in New Orleans: Seebold's, 1879-80; Lilienthal's, 1883; Tulane Univ.,1892; Artists' Assoc. of New Orleans, 1886-1901; Moses & Son, 1901; also at Tenn. Centennial Expo, Nashville, 1897

Member: Southern Art Union , 1880-81( founder); Artists' Assoc. of New Orleans, 1885-97 (an organizer, treasurer, secretary, teacher of perspective drawing)

Work: Louisiana State Mus., New Orleans (Volunteer Firemen's Parade," 1872, painted in collaboration with Victor Pierson); Historic New Orleans Collection"

Comments: After studying in Paris, he returned to New Orleans in January of 1859, and remained active there until his death, although he also briefly worked in Alabama (1859). He shared a studio with Richard Clague (see entry) in New Orleans before entering the Confederate Army. After the war, he was a partner with Victor Pierson (see entry) in Pierson & Poincy (1872-73). He specialized in children's portraits but also painted street scenes and religious-themed works.

Sources: G&W; G&W also included an entry for a portrait painter named A. Poincy, based on Delgado-WPA citation from Bee, Jan. 18, 1859; this must, however, be the Paul Poincy who studied in Paris and returned to New Orleans in 1859: see references in Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists under entries for Paul Poincy, and Pierson & Poincy). See also WPA (Ala.), Hist. Records Survey; Cline, Art and Artists in New Orleans;" Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 105; Complementary Visions, 35."