xt7qjq0stw34_5300 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Henry Bernard Chalon clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Henry Bernard Chalon clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_61/Folder_61/Multipage28174.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5300 xt7qjq0stw34 *Henry Bernard Chalon. horn in London of‘
Dutch parents in 1770, studied at the Royal
Academy schools. and exhibited for the first
time at Somerset House in 1792, hi: two pic-
tures being landscapes. with cattle. From that
date until 1347' pictures by him (on two ocean
sions as many as ten) were. with three excep-
tions. hung annually at, the. Academy. A Court
favourite. he was appointed animal painter to
the Duchess of York in 1795. as well as to the
Prince Regent and afterwards to William IV.
He confined himself principally to the painting
of horses. lri 1846 he met with a bad accident,
and died in 1849. The two large (log: referred
to by Farington were apparently exhibited. for
in the 1804 RA. catalogue we find under
Chalon‘s name. “Portraits of Hannibal and
Princess. the properly of the Duke of York,”
as well as “ Portraits of Dogs, the properly of
Miss ’l‘hra‘e.”

His daug‘ or, Mrs. H. M‘melfi', also an ariist,
was in 182;» appointed mini eturc painter to the
Duke of York. She contributed to the
Academy for twenty-one years, and died 1867.