Edmond Dyonnet

Edmond Dyonnet (1859-1954) was a landscape painter, portraitist, photographer and educator. He was born in France and became a naturalised Canadian. He taught numerous students in Quebec, among them A. Y. Jackson, and was an academician and secretary of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1910-1947), author of a history of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts with Hugh Jones in 1934, and a charter member of Montreal's Arts Club in 1912.