Louis de Niverville was born 1933 in Andover, England where his father, an Air Vice-Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Forces, was stationed. He came to Canada with his parents in 1934, living in Montreal, then moving to Ottawa in 1953. He settled for the next thirty years in Toronto where he established himself as a nationally recognized artist.

Louis de Niverville received considerable encouragement from his brother Georges, a trained artist, to pursue a career in art. He specialized in illustrations, working for Mayfair magazine and the CBC graphics department besides exploring venues for his own work. He was interested in Symbolism and Surrealism and in his more innocent paintings of the 1960's, viewers often perceived a vague element of threat, marking the influence of Surrealist artists such as Max Ernst or Salvador Dali. In the 1970's, he exhibited paintings dealing with dreams and nightmares at the Jerrold Morris Gallery with Sol Littman. His current works are primarily painted collages created out of images made on hand-painted papers which are then cut, composed and glued to wood panels.

In 1978, a restrospective exhibition of his work toured fourteen Canadian cities. In 1997, a second retrospective exhibition of painted collages was shown in Vancouver, Edmonton and Oshawa. He has had solo exhibitions in many major Canadian cities and New York.His work is in numerous private and corporate collections as well as museums in Canada and the United States. Louis de Niverville currently resides in West Vancouver.