Théophile-Abraham Hamel (8 November 1817 – 23 December 1870) was a Canadian artist who painted mainly portraits and religious images in 19th-century Quebec.

[1] Hamel was born in 1817 in Sainte-Foy (then a suburb of Quebec City), the son of a successful farmer.

His style gradually changed to match the taste of his clients for simple, honest, even prim portraits.

In 1843, Hamel travelled to Europe (London, Naples, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Venice, and then north to France and Belgium).

[5] Hamel also painted religious pictures for various commissions, and a series of "imaginative" or "semi-imaginative" portraits of Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Jean Talon, Montcalm, and General James Murray.