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HENRY BERNARD CHALON. 



(Born 1770. Died 1849.) 



HENRY BERNARD CHALON was born 

 in London in the year 1770. His father, 

 a native of Amsterdam, had in early life left his 

 own country and had settled in London. The 

 name was uncommon in England before the 

 middle of the eighteenth century, and it is there- 

 fore likely that the two brothers, John James 

 Chalon and Alfred Edward Chalon, born re- 

 spectively in 1778 and 17S1, were relatives of 

 the subject of the present sketch. These brothers 

 came from Geneva, being members of an old 

 French family who had taken refuge in that town 

 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. John 

 James was a landscape and genre painter ; Alfred 

 Edward devoted himself to portrait and subject 

 painting; and both attained to considerable 

 eminence in their respective departments of art 

 after taking up their residence in England, which 

 they did in the latter portion of the century. 



H. B. Chalon studied at the Royal Academy 

 and speedily made his mark as a painter of 

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