John James Chalon
Schweizer Maler in England
John James Chalon RA war ein in England tätiger Schweizer Maler. Er behandelte ein breites Spektrum an Motiven – Landschaften, Marineszenen, Tierdarstellungen und Figurenbilder. He was born at Geneva, of an old French family who had taken refuge there after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He went to England when quite young, and entered the Schools of the Academy in 1796. His first picture, 'Banditti at their Repast,' appeared in 1800. In 1808, he, his brother Alfred Edward Chalon, and some friends, founded the Sketching Society, and in the same year he joined the Water-Colour Society, but in 1813 he seceded from it, and again devoted himself to painting pictures in oil for the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of that institution in 1827, and an Academician in 1841. Im Jahr 1847 erlitt er einen Lähmungsanfall und starb nach einer langen und schmerzhaften Krankheit im Jahr 1854 in Kensington. Er ist auf dem Highgate Cemetery begraben.
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Siblings
- Alfred Edward Chalon Unknown
Artworks by this artist (17 total)
- View Of The Market And Fontaine Des Innocents, Paris 1826
- A View of Theobald’s Park, Hertfordshire
- Much ado about nothing, V, 4 ‘Claudio, why then she’s mine sweet let me see your face’
- Bal public 1818
- Queen Victoria
- A mounted gamekeeper questions the cattle herders on their being found with a sporting dog 1818
- Romeo and Juliet, V, 3, tomb scene
- Portrait of a Man with Hat 1792
- Skating in the Park
- Macbeth, II, 2
- Merchant of Venice, V, 1, ‘The moon sleeps with Endymion and would not be awakened’
- Music： Composition in a Garden ca. 1832
- The Haywain
- Merchant of Venice, V, 1
- Wood Cutters
- Le Marché et la fontaine des Innocents 1822
- A midsummer night’s dream, Quince; O monstrous! 1831