Born to Dutch parents living in France, Alphonse Jongers received a bachelor of literature from the University of Paris in 1889, before enrolling in the Ecole des Arts Decoratif, Paris. From 1889-1892, he attented the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, under Elie Delaunay and Alexandre Cabanal also studying at the Acad‚mie Julian with Jules Lefebvre, Jean Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Lucien Doucet. At some point he was also in Gustave Moreau's ateler. Jongers worked on designs for furniture and stage settings for the Paris Expositon in 1889. From 1893-1895 the artist was in Spain.
Jongers opened a studio in Montreal in 1895, where he established himself as a portraitist. By 1900, Jongers had relocated to New York, spending the next four summers at Old Lyme. Along with Ranger, Jongers was a charter member of the Old Lyme group of Connecticut Impressionists. Jongers returned to Montreal in 1924, becoming a leading Canadian society portraitist.
