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CHEVY bourne, Australia, where he resided from 1859 to 1867. In 1865, 1866, and 1868, he explored a large part of New Zealand, mak- ing many sketches, and in 18C9 and 1870 he accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh in his visit to the South Sea Islands, Japan, China, India, etc. Since then he has resided chiefly in England and has executed many works, several of them by royal commission. Works : Pilgrims at Tivoli, Buffalo Ranges (1865) ; Atiamano Island of Tahiti (1871) ; Palace of Deeg Bhurtpore (1872) ; Thanks- giving Procession to St. Paul's (1873) ; Blind Musicians of Japan (1874) ; Review in St. Petersburg (1875) ; Opening of Exhibition of Vienna in 1873 (1877) ; Eastern Shepherd, Eastern Puzzle (1878) ; Hinemoa (1879) ; The Convalescent (1882). Art Journal (1879), 121. CHEVY-CHACE, Sir Edwin Landseer, Duke of Bedford, Woburu Abbey ; canvas. Scene from ballad of Chevy-Chace : Earl Percy of Northumberland hunting on the property of the Scottish Earl of Douglas. Royal Academy, 1826. Engraved by C. G. Lewis. Art Journal (London, 1876), 116. CHIALU, VINCENZO, born at Citta di Custello, Umbria, July 27, 1787, died at Cortona, Sept. 4, 1840. History painter, pupil in Rome of Camuccini ; painted there and in Borgo San Sepolcro, Urbino, Pesaro, and Venice, many religious pictures and portraits in the style of his master ; lived in Rome in 1815-22 ; afterwards in his native city, Florence, and other Tuscan and Um- brian cities, until 1825, when he settled at San Sepolcro, whence in 1835 he moved to Cortona as director of the school of paint- ing. Works : Cemetery (1823), Mass (1824), ; Palazzo Pitti ; Dante in the Abbey of Fonte Avellana ; Raphael and Fra Bartolommeo in Convent of San Marco ; Young Raphael with his Parents (Cartoon). Fr. Gh. Drago- manni, Vita e Opere di V. Ch. (Florence, 1841). CHIARI, GIUSEPPE, born in Rome in 1654, died there in 1727. Umbrian school ; history painter, pupil of Carlo Maratti ; exe- cuted many excellent easel pictures and wall paintings, also frescos in several churches and palaces in Rome. Works : Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, San Maria del Suffragio, Rome ; four subjects from Ovid, Palazzo Spada, Rome ; portrait of himself, Uftizi, Florence ; Adoration of the Magi, Dresden Gallery ; Holy Trinity, Lord Scarsdale, Kedleston Hall ; three pictures at Hampton Court ; frescos in Colonua and Barberiui Palaces and in S. Maria di Monte- santo, Rome. CHEERICI, GAETANO, born at Reggio, Italy, in 1838. Genre painter ; noted for humourous interior scenes, with children. Works: The Bath, Mother is El (1872); Fun and Fright (1874), Corcoran Gallery ; Charity ; New Mayor of the Village ; Girl and Kitten ; Saturday Frolic ; Sheriff's Ar- rest ; First Love ; Old Music Teacher (1873); Child's Grief ; Bathing the Baby ; Mother is El (1876); Widow's Dinner (1877). CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 8 in. X 8 ft. 2 in. Italy ancient and modern. A mountainous landscape at evening, with a winding river ; to the right, a broken bridge ; to the left, a pile of ruins ; in foreground, a solitary stone-pine, and a party of pleasure seated on the river bank. Royal Academy, 1832. Engraved by J. T. Willniore, iu Turner Gallery. CHILDREN OF THE SHELL. See Christ and St. John. CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL, Ludwig Knaus, National Gallery, Berlin ; Canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. 9 in. Children, in the costume of the 18th century, feasting at long tables spread under the trees of an orchard ; in background, parents with grown children and a band of music ; in middle-ground, younger ones, the boys imitating the gal- lantry of their elders ; in foreground, the little ones, attended by an older girl. Painted in 1869. Engraved by Habellmaun. CHILL OCTOBER, John Everett JWiWaw, Sir William Armstrong, London. A bank 879