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-
