Name

Nicholas Chevalier

Culture

Australian | English

Gender

Male

Birth date

9 May 1828

Birth place

St Petersburg, Russia View on map Close map

Death date

15 March 1902

Death Place

London, England View on map Close map

Movements

Australia 25 December 1854-69; also in Aotearoa New Zealand during 1865-68

Occupations

Artist (painter) | Artist (water-colouristist) | Cartoonist | Drawer | Painter | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC), Aotearoa New Zealand, England. Etchings, Lithographs

NGA IRN

21318

Context

Australia

Address

• 1857.
  Victoria Parade, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  [VSFA, 1857].

Biography

Nicholas Chevalier

Born St. Petersburg 1828, Nicholas Chevalier studied architecture at Lausanne in 1845 and a few years later, in 1848, painting at Munich. In 1851 he moved to London where he studied lithography under Louis Gruner. Chevalier arrived in Australia in 1855 and worked as a painter and illustrator. He drew lithographs in Melbourne and his album of twelve chromo-lithographs was published in 1865. They were the first to be produced in Australia. He departed Australia in 1865 for Aotearoa New Zealand (where he produced a few etchings) before returning to London in 1868 where he died in 1902.

 

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