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 Walters, Baltimore; Bag-Piper of the 72d Highlanders, Woman Asleep (1859), Luxembourg Museum; Jewish Goldsmith at Moustaganem (1859); Rest in the Island (1866); Difficult Answer (1870); Corner of Hearth (1872); Young Nobles of Court of Henri III. (1873); The Model Resting (1874); Confidence, Imprudent, Illusion (1875); Washerwomen (1877); Reading the Paper (1878); Woman Reading (1879).

CHELMINSKI, JAN, born at Brzóstov, Poland, Jan. 27, 1851. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of the Munich Academy and of Franz Adam. Studio in Munich. Works: Stag-Hunt in time of Louis XV.; Starting for the Chase; Morning in the Ukraine; By a Tavern; Polish Insurgents; Going to Church; Huntsman on Horseback; Thawing in the Ukraine; Outposts; Ordnance and Dragoon; Stag-Hunt in 18th Century (1879), New Pinakothek, Munich; Corso in 18th Century (1883); Carnival in Poland (1884).—Müller, 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 Waterloo. 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 figures 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, Century, ii. 270; Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, 61; Waagen, 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-Brézé (1829), Deluge, Death of Zoroaster, Trojan War, Death of Socrates, Cæsar crossing the Rubicon, Italian Poetry, Age of Louis XIV., Augustus 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; Larousse.

CHÉRON, 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; returned to Paris in 1688, but being a Calvinist was obliged to leave in 1695, and went to England, where he was employed in the decoration of Boughton, Burley, and Chatsworth. Works: Diana and Nymphs Bathing (engraved by Baron); Marriage of Charles I. (engraved by Dupuis). He made designs for an edition of Paradise Lost, published in 1720.—Bryan (Graves); Redgrave.

CHÉRY, 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: Annunciation, Church of Generville; St. Cecilia, Benedictine Convent, Boulogne-sur-Mer; Death of Father of Louis XVI. (1817); Thrasybulus reëstablishing 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