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 CHELMINSKI Walters, Baltimore ; Bag-Piper of the 72d Highlanders, Woman Asleep (1859), Luxem- bourg Museum ; Jewish Goldsmith at Mous- taganem (1859); Rest in the Island (186C); Difficult Answer (1870) ; Corner of Hearth (1872); Young Nobles of Court of Henri m. (1873); The Model Resting (1874); Con- fidence, Imprudent, Illusion (1875); Wash- erwomen (1877); Reading the Paper (1878); Woman Reading (1879). CHELMINSKI, JAN, born at Brzostov, Poland, Jan. 27, 1851. Genre and land- scape painter, pupil of the Munich Acad- emy and of Franz Adam. Studio in Mu- 1 nich. Works : Stag-Hunt in time of Louis XV. ; Starting for the Chase ; Morning in the Ukraine ; By a Tavern ; Polish In- surgents ; Going to Church ; Huntsman on Horseback ; Thawing in the Ukraine ; Outposts ; Ordnance and Dragoon ; Stag- Hunt in 18th Century (1879), New Pinako- thek, Munich ; Corso in 18th Century (1883); Carnival in Poland (1884). Mailer, 103 ; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1880); i. 55 ; (1881), i. 58. CHELSEA PENSIONERS, Sir David Wilkie, Apsley House, London ; canvas. Reading the Gazette of the battle of Water- loo. Chelsea pensioners seated around a deal table, in front of the Duke of York Inn, with Chelsea Hospital in the background. A hussar orderly has just ridden up with a copy of the Gazette, which one of the old heroes is reading aloud ; many other fig- ures grouped around. Painted in 1821 for the Duke of Wellington, who paid 1200 guineas for it. Sketch in Baring Collection. Engraved by J. Burnet. Redgrave, Cen- tury, ii. 270 ; Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, Cl ; AVaageu, Art Treasures, ii. 189, 273. CHENAVARD, PAUL JOSEPH, born in Lyons, Dec. 9, 1808. History painter, pupil of Hersent and Ingres ; spent several years in Italy. The leaders of the February ' Revolution ordered of him a series of large paintings for the Pantheon, which were not all finished when the Revolution ended. Medal, 1st class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1853. ' Works : Sentence of Louis XVI, Mirabeau replying to Marquis of Dreux-Breze (1829), Deluge, Death of Zoroaster, Trojan War, Death of Socrates, Csesar crossing the Rubi- con, Italian Poetry, Age of Louis XIV., Au- gustus closing Doors of Temple of Janus, Attila stopped before Rome, The Beginning of the Reformation (all exhibited in 1853) ; Death of Cato and of Brutus, Birth of Christ, National Convention (1855) ; Divina Tragedia (1869), Luxembourg Museum. Ch. Blanc, Artistes de mon Temps, 191 ; La- rousse. CHERON, LOUIS, born in Paris in 1655, died in London in 1713. French school ; history painter and engraver ; studied works of Raphael and G. Romano in Italy ; re- turned to Paris in 1688, but being a Calvin- ist was obliged to leave in 1695, and went to England, where he was employed in the decoration of Boughton, Burley, and Chats- worth. Works : Diana and Nymphs Bath- ing (engraved by Baron) ; Marriage of Charles L (engraved by Dupuis). He made designs for an edition of Paradise Lost, published in 1720. Bryan (Graves); Red- grave. CHERY, PHILIPPE, born in Paris in 1759, died there in 1838. French school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Vien ; left France during Revolution ; returned in 1802, and received prize of 12,000 francs in the competition of the year XI. (1803) for his Treaty of Amiens. Works : Annuncia- tion, Church of Gen erville ; St. Cecilia, Bene- dictine Convent, Boulogne-sur-Mer ; Death of Father of Louis XVI. (1817); Thrasybu- lus reestablishing Democratic Government at Athens ; Death of Alcibiades ; Birth of Venus ; Toilet of Venus. Bryan (Graves). CHEVALIER, NICHOLAS, born in St. Petersburg about 1830. Son of a Swiss father and a Russian mother; became, when eighteen years old, a student in the Munich Academy, whence he went in 1851 to London, and in 1852 exhibited two water-colours at Royal Academy. After studying two years in Italy, went to Mel- S7S