One of sixteen Children of Abraham Boisvert and Marie Biron, he was born at Baie-du-Febvre (today called Saint-Elphège), in Yamaska, Quebec.
[3] In Paris, under the supervision of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens, he followed studied for two years at the Julian Academy.
He spent ten years under the supervision of painting masters such as Gabriel Ferrier and Léon Bonnat.
He decorated Sacred Heart Cathedral (Roman Catholic) in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and the private chapel of Mgr Prudhomme.[who?]
In Montreal, he painted former prime ministers such as Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Louis Stephen Saint-Laurent; then Jacob Nichols, Cardinal Léger, Esioff Patenaude, lieutenant-governor (the painting disappeared in the fire at Bois de Coulonge on February 20, 1966), and the former Montreal mayor, Camillien Houde On Sunday, February 25, 1962, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, he was decorated with the medal from ‘Ordre du Mérite Franco-Américain’.