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 died between 1662 and 1664. Dutch school; probably of German origin, judging from his name, Ceulen (i.e., Cologne). First style thoroughly Dutch, afterwards mingled with Flemish influence, through Van Dyck, with whom he painted for eight years at court of Charles I. Went to England in 1618, reign of James I., and remained until 1648, when he settled at Utrecht. Works: Magistrates (1647), Hague Museum; two portraits (1651), Dresden Museum; three (1640, 1655), Brunswick Museum; four portraits, Rotterdam Museum; one (1660), Lille Museum; Charles I., Chatsworth; Prince Henry, Kedleston Hall; Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Portland, De Witt and Wife, Luton Hall; Milton, Passmore Edwards, M.P., London.—Burger, Musées, ii. 225; Kramm, iii. 798; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 229.

CHABAL-DUSSURGEY, PIERRE ADRIEN, born at Charlieu (Loire), in 1815. Flower painter, chiefly in water-colour. Painted fourteen panels of flowers and fruit for the lobby of the Théatre Français; and decorated a room for the Empress Eugénie. Medals: 3d class, 1845; 2d class, 1847; L. of Honour, 1857; professor at the Gobelins in 1850. Works: Flowers (1842 to 1845); Crown of Flowers around the portrait of the Duke of Orleans, Bouquet of Camellias (1846); Springtime (1849); Studies of Flowers (1843 to 1852); Virgin surrounded by Flowers, Corner of a Vineyard in Autumn (1855); Crown of Flowers, Vase of Flowers (1861); Concordia (1878); A Rose from my Garden (1879).

CHABRY, MARTIN LÉONCE, born at Bordeaux, died before April 1, 1883. Landscape painter. Medal, 3d class, 1879. Works: Pic de Clarabide, Heights of La Vallière (1878); In the Landes of Gascogne, Coast of Saintonge (1879); Isolated Rock at Vallière, In the Month of August (1880); In the old Forest of Buch (1881); Ruins of Thebes (1882); The Nile at Erment, Plains of Thebes (1883).

CHACATON, JEAN NICOLAS HENRI DE, born at Chézy (Allier), July 13, 1813. French school; landscape painter, pupil of Ingres, Hersent, and Marilhat. Has never been a popular painter, and has not exhibited in the Salon since 1857. Has travelled in Italy, the East, and Spain, taking his subjects from those countries. Medals: 3d class, 1838; 2d class, 1844 and 1848. Works: Prisoner of Chillon (1835); Porta Nuova in Palermo; St. Rosalie's Day, Gorges of Amalfi (1838); Turkish Bazaar in Cairo, Arab Camp at Suez, Irregular Cavalry of Ibrahim Pasha, Valley of Jehoshaphat (1841); Factory in the Island of Procida (1842); Hourbarych Street in Cairo, Arabian Fountain, Souvenir of the Villa Borghese (1844); Departure of a Caravan, Plane-Trees of Hippocrates, Syrian Town (1846); Turkish Family Travelling, Caravan Halting, Arab Camp in the Desert, Courtyard in Granada (1848); Mosque in Jerusalem (1849); Muezzin's House in Gaza, Shepherds of the Roman Campagna returning from the Fields (1852); Arabs at a Cistern (1855); Carthusian Convent in Syracuse, Souvenir of the Tiber, Bull-Fight in Valencia (1857).—Larousse.

CHALDEAN SAGES, Giorgione, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 5-1/2 in. Three astronomers, in Eastern costume, in the shadow of a glade. Two of them, an old man and one of middle age, stand engaged in conversation in foreground; the third, seated, examines the heavens and places a compass on an angle, as if to measure it. Said to have been finished after Giorgione's death (1511) by Sebastian del Piombo, but there are no signs of it. In collection of Taddeo Contarini in 1535.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 135.

CHALON, ALFRED EDWARD, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 15, 1781, died in London, Oct. 3, 1860. Reverses of French Revolution drove family to England in 1789; Alfred entered, in 1797, schools of Royal Academy, became an A.R.A. in 1812, and R.A. in 1816. Was for many years the fashionable portrait painter in water-colours, was the first to paint Queen Victoria, and