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 CHAMPIGNY followed his manner, was also a professor in the Paris Academy. Biog. uat. de Belgique, iii. 413 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole francaise ; Im- merzeel, i. 134 ; Kramm, i. 228 ; Michiels, ix. 279, 330. CHAMPIGNY, Edouard Detaille, Henry Hilton, New York. Scene, the kitchen garden of a suburban mansion near Paris. Gen. Faron, having retaken Champigny, a village above the Marne, fortified the hamlet and defended, foot by foot, the houses and enclosed gardens, Dec. 2, 1870, against the return attack of the Saxony and Wiirtem- burg Divisions. Photogravure in Art Treas- ures of America, ii. 51. CHAMPIN, JEAN JACQUES, born at Sceaux (Seine), Sept. 8, 1796, died in Paris, March 10, I860. Landscape painter, pupil of Storelli and Regnier ; an excellent water- colour painter, and a skilful engraver. Med- als : 2d class, 1824 ; 1st class, 1831. Works : Coast of Provence from above Nice (1831); Souvenirs of the Lignon (18C9). Larousse. CHAMPNEY, JAMES WELLS, born in Boston, Mass., July 1C, 1843. Genre painter; pupil of Edouard Frere at Ecouen, France, and of the Antwerp Academy in 18G7-G8. Sketched at different times in England and on the Continent, Africa, Nova Scotia, South America, and in the Southern United States. Lecturer on anatomy in the schools of the National Academy, New York. Elected an A.N.A. in 1882. Studios in New York and Deerfield. Works: Which is Umpire? (1871); Sere Leaf (1874); Not so Ugly as he Looks (1875); Your Good Health, Speak, Sir (187G); Where the Two Paths Meet (1880) ; Indian Summer (1881); Bonny Kilmeny, Boarding- school Green-Boom (1882); Pamela, Hide and Seek, Autumn Reverie, Eunice (1884); He loves Me (1885); Water-colours : On the Heights, Measuring the Great Elm (1884). CHATEAU DE FAILLE (i. e. Foil The Beaver Hat), Rubens, National Gallery, Lon- don ; wood, H. 2 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 9 in. Por- trait of a young lady (Mdlle. Lunden?), half-length, life-size, dressed in a black vel- vet bodice with crimson sleeves, and wearing a black Spanish beaver hat with black and white feathers, holding her hands crossed before her. The hat casts a shadow over the upper part of the face, giving the painter an opportunity of showing his skill in treat- ing transparent shadow. From this it was formerly called in Belgium Het Spaansch Hoedje (The Spanish Hat). It was in Ru- Chapeau de Faille, Rubens, National Gallery, London. bens's possession until his death (1G40); at death of his widow passed to family of Lun- den, from whom bought (1817) by Baron Stiers d'Aertselaer for 50,000 florins ; sold at his death (1822) for 32,700 florins, and taken to England, where it was purchased for 3,500 by Sir Robert Peel, from whose Collection it passed in 1871 to National Gal- lery. Engraved by Tayler ; Reynolds. Smith, ii. 32, 228; Kett, 110; Waagen, Treas- ures, i. 398. CHAPLIN, CHARLES JOSHUA, born at Les Audelys (Eure), June 6, 1825. Fig- ure and portrait painter ; pupil of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and employed in 1860 in decorating the Tuileries, afterwards the rooms of the Empress in the FJysee, the Hotel Musard, and other public and private SOS