Charles Ignace Adélard Gill (21 October 1871 – 16 October 1918) was a Canadian artist, specializing in poetry and painting. He also worked under the alternate names of Clairon and Léon Duval.

Career

He was born at Sorel, Quebec to

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and Marie-Rosalie Delphire Sénécal. He studied at Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Collège de Nicolet and

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, then George de Forest Brush, who was vacationing in Pierreville, undertook to develop Gill's talent for painting. As a result, he went to the Art Association of Montreal that 1888 to study with

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. Encouraged by Brymner, he went to Paris and worked with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts. After returning to Montreal, he established his own studio in 1894. He also published poetry in the anthology ''Les soirées du Château de Ramesay'' (1900). After his death a volume of his poetry was published under the title ''Le Cap Eternité, poème suivi des étoiles filantes'' (1919). Gill had one son, Roger-Charles, with his wife Georgine Bélanger (aka

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, m. 12 May 1902). He died at Montreal from the

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just short of his 47th birthday.

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