Alphonse Jongers

Place: Mézières

Born: 1872

Death: 1945

Biography:

Alphonse Jongers was born on November 17, 1872, in Mézières, France and died on October 2, 1945, in Montreal, Canada. He was in Old Lyme, 1900-04. The French born Alphonse Jongers (1872-1945) moved to New York in 1904 and worked briefly in Montreal before settling in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he became a prominent member of the Old Lyme Art Colony. He was known for his impressionistic landscapes and still lifes, and his work was exhibited widely during his lifetime. He died in Montreal in 1945.