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animals. His first pictures were shown at the 

 Royal Academy Exhibition of 1792, when he was 

 twenty-two years of age ; these were a " Landscape 

 with Cattle " and a " Landscape with Horses." 

 He did not exhibit again until 1796; but he 

 worked to good purpose in the interval, for in 

 1795 he was appointed animal painter to H.R.H. 

 the Duchess of York. Late in life he had the 

 further honour of being appointed animal painter 

 to William IV. 



Henry Bernard Chalon devoted his talents chiefly 

 to animal portraiture. His 193 contributions to the 

 Royal Academy, in whose exhibitions he was 

 represented for a period of forty-five years, consist 

 largely of such works and of portrait groups which 

 included likenesses of race-horses, hunters, and 

 dogs of various breeds. Sporting scenes, studies 

 of wild animals, of game birds and cattle pieces, 

 are also numerous among the pictures left by this 

 industrious painter, who counted the most dis- 

 tinguished people of the day among his patrons. 



One of his best dog pictures is the portrait of 

 an Irish Water Spaniel, painted in the year 

 181 2, a canvas measuring 56 inches by 48 inches. 

 This compares favourably with the "White 

 Poodle," by George Stubbs, R.A., which is in 

 the collection of Lord Yarborough, at Brocklesby, 

 in Lincolnshire. Chalons portrait of The Colonel, 



