Louis de Niverville RCA (June 7, 1933 – February 11, 2019) was a Canadian modernist painter whose work has a quality of imaginative fantasy, sometimes described as surreal.

He drew on memories, dreams and observations, pulling out of himself the feelings and imagery which moved and excited him and channeling them into his multi-facetted body of work.

[3] In 1953, the family moved to Ottawa where, in 1957, de Niverville worked as an office clerk for the Federal Department of Transport.

[2] He has written that he was introduced to visual art by the witty illustrations in Saul Steinberg's book All in Line (1945).

[6][7] His tone varied from the witty to the acerbic, and he addressed subjects as varied as recollections, observations or dreams, and even embellishments on a given word, such as the two monumental paintings titled Le Roi S'Amuse (1980), painted for his friends Toller Cranston, the Olympic skater and fellow artist, and for Ellen Burka, his coach, on the theme of "folly".

[9] Louis de Niverville was elected a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1973.