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 He was elected an Associate of that Institution in 1827, and an Academician in 18-il. In 1820, Clialon published a series of ' Slietches from Parisian Manners,' in which the incidents were admirably varied, and so selected as to display the most amusing points of national character in connection with all that was most picturesque in the costume of the time, and with that true humour which never degenerates into caricature. He was fond of the scenery of Switzerland, the land of his father and mother, and some of his finest landscapes are faithful transcripts of its mountains and lakes. Among these, a very noble work is his ' Castle of Chillon,' its lonely white walls strongly contrasting with the dark mountains that rise behind them, and glittering in the ripple of the clear blue lake. Amongst his later productions were ' Gil Bias in the Robbers' Cave,' in 1843, and the ' Arrival of the Steamer at Folkestone,' in 1844. In 1847, he was seized by an attack of paralysis, and, after a long and painful illness, died at Kensington in 1854. The Gallery of Greenwich Hospital possesses his 'Napoleon on board the Bellerophon,' painted in 1816, and in the Sheepshanks Collection at the South Kensington Museum are ' Village Gossips,' painted in 1815, and ' Hastings, Fishing Boats making the Shore in a Breeze,' painted in 1819.

CHALON, Louis, was a landscape-painter, who is thought to have been born in Holland about 1687. He painted some views on the Rhine, en- livened with figures, in a very artistic manner and with an agreeable colouring. He died at Amster- dam in 1741.

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CHAMBERLAIN, William, who was born in London, studied in the Royal Academy Schools and under Opie. His works, sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, were for the most part portraits. He died at Hull in 1807.

CHAMBERLIN, Mason, a pupil of Frank Hayman, was a portrait-painter, who gained some suc- cess on account of the fidelity of his likenesses. He was an exhibitor at Spring Gardens in 1763, and at the Royal Academy (of which he was one of the original members) from 1769 to 1786. He died in London in 1787. The Royal Academy pos- sesses his portrait of Di". Hunter, which was his presentation picture, and the Royal Society has his portrait of Dr. Chandler. Both these portraits have been engraved.

CHAMBERS, George, a painter of shipping scenes, was a son of a poor seaman of Whitby in Yorkshire, where he was born in 1803, During his apprenticeship on board a trading sloop he gave evidence of the talent by which he was subsequently distinguished, by making sketches of shipping for the amusement and gratification of the seamen. At Whitby, he took lessons of a drawing-master of the name of Bird, and employed his spare time in painting small pictures of shipping, for which he found a ready sale. Going to London three years later, he obtained an introduction to Mr. Thomas Horner, who employed him for seven years to assist in painting the great Panorama of London at the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. He was also engaged as scene- painter at the Pavilion Theatre. Here he attracted the notice of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr, who became his sincere patron, and procured him an introduction to King William IV. He was admitted as an Associate Member of the Water-Colour Society in 1834, and was elected a full member in 1836 ; but a constitution originally very weak, and much shattered by a sea-faring life, was unable to bear the incessant application to which his mind would subject it : his strength gave way, and he died in 1840. His pictures are now appreciated by collectors, and obtain good prices. His best productions are his naval battles, in which he is excellent, though in the colouring there is perhaps too much redness pervading everything, the smoke in particular. There are in the hall at Greenwich Hospital three battles by him : the ' Bombardment of Algiers,' the 'Capture of Portobello,' and a copy of West's picture of the ' Destruction of the French Fleet at La Hogue.' In the South Kensington .Museum are four water-colour drawings by him.

CHAMBERS, Thomas, an English engraver, was born in London about the year 1724, and drowned himself in the Thames in 1789. He engraved many of the plates for Boydell's collections, and several portraits of artists for Lord Orford's ' Anecdotes.' They are executed with the graver, in a firm, but not a pleasing style. The following are some of his best prints :

A Concert ; after Caravagijio. Kaphael's Mistress ; after Raphael. The Holy Family ; after Murillo. St. Martin dividmg his Cloak ; after Rahens. St. Peter and St. John liealiug the Sick ; after S. Bourdon. Jupiter and Antiope ; after Casali. Helena Forman ; after I 'an Dyck. The Good Man at the Hour of Death ; after Hayman. The Wicked Man ; the companion ; after the same. The Death of Turenne ; after Palmieri. Mrs. Quarrington as St. Agnes ; after Reynolds.

CHAJIORRO, Jdan, a Spanish historical painter, was a pupil of Francisco de Herrera, the elder, and was president of the Seville Academy in the years 1669 and 1670. He was living in 1673, but the date of his death is not known. The pictures of the ' Four Doctors of the Church,' and those repre- senting scenes from the life of the Virgin, in the church of Our Lady of Mercy at Madrid, attest his merits cs a painter and a colourist.

CHAMPAIGNS, Jean Baptiste de, a Flemish painter of historical subjects, genre pictures, and portraits, was bom at Brussels in 1631. He was a nephew of Philippe de Champaigne, who sent for him to Paris when only eleven years of age, and gave him instruction in painting. He adopted the style of his uncle, but did not, however, attain his eminence, though his works have sometimes passed current under the uncle's name. He visited Italy, returned to Brussels, and thence went to Paris, where he was in 1663 elected a member of the Academy. He died in Paris in 1681. The following are some of his principal works :

Brussels. Museum. Grenoble. Museum. Lyons. Musmm. Marseilles. Museum. Xancy. Musenm. Versailles. Palace : Salon de Mtrcure. The Assumption of the Virgin (painted for the church of St. Gitdule, Brussels). St, Peter. The Benediction of the Order of St. Dominic. The Adoration of the Shepherds. The Stoning of St. Paul at Lystra (a ' mai ' painted in 1067 for Notre-Dame at Paris), St. Paul. The ceiling representing' Mercury in his chariot drawn by two cocks,' and four subjects from the lives of Alexander, Ptolemy, and Augustus.