Following Vaudechamp’s departure from Louisiana in 1839, Amans assumed the role as the most celebrated portraitist in Louisiana. In the mid-1840s, he married Azoline Landreaux, the daughter of St. Charles Parish sugar planter Pierre Honoré Landreaux and Joséphine Armant, and purchased Trinity Plantation on Bayou Lafourche.
After Vaudechamp left Louisiana in 1839, Amans became the most celebrated portrait artist in the state. Around the mid-1840s, he married Azoline Landreaux, the daughter of a prominent sugar planter, and bought Trinity Plantation on Bayou Lafourche.