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followed his manner, was also a professor in the Paris Academy.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 413; Ch. Blanc, Ècole francaise; Immerzeel, i. 134; Kramm, i. 228; Michiels, ix. 279, 330.


CHAMPIGNY, Édouard Detaille, Henry Hilton, New York. Scene, the kitchen garden of a suburban mansion near Paris. Gen. Faron, having retaken Champigny, a village above the Marne, fortified the hamlet and defended, foot by foot, the houses and enclosed gardens, Dec. 2, 1870, against the return attack of the Saxony and Würtemburg Divisions. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 51.


CHAMPIN, JEAN JACQUES, born at Sceaux (Seine), Sept. 8, 1796, died in Paris, March 10, 1860. Landscape painter, pupil of Storelli and Régnier; an excellent water-*colour painter, and a skilful engraver. Medals: 2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1831. Works: Coast of Provence from above Nice (1831); Souvenirs of the Lignon (1869).—Larousse.


CHAMPNEY, JAMES WELLS, born in Boston, Mass., July 16, 1843. Genre painter; pupil of Edouard Frère at Écouen, France, and of the Antwerp Academy in 1867-68. Sketched at different times in England and on the Continent, Africa, Nova Scotia, South America, and in the Southern United States. Lecturer on anatomy in the schools of the National Academy, New York. Elected an A.N.A in 1882. Studios in New York and Deerfield. Works: Which is Umpire? (1871); Sere Leaf (1874); Not so Ugly as he Looks (1875); Your Good Health, Speak, Sir (1876); Where the Two Paths Meet (1880); Indian Summer (1881); Bonny Kilmeny, Boarding-school Green-Room (1882); Pamela, Hide and Seek, Autumn Reverie, Eunice (1884); He loves Me (1885); Water-colours: On the Heights, Measuring the Great Elm (1884).


CHAPEAU DE PAILLE (i.e. Poil—The Beaver Hat), Rubens, National Gallery, London; wood, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 9 in. Portrait of a young lady (Mdlle. Lunden?), half-length, life-size, dressed in a black velvet bodice with crimson sleeves, and wearing a black Spanish beaver hat with black and white feathers, holding her hands crossed before her. The hat casts a shadow over the upper part of the face, giving the painter an opportunity of showing his skill in treating transparent shadow. From this it was formerly called in Belgium Het Spaansch Hoedje (The Spanish Hat). It was in Rubens's possession until his death (1640); at death of his widow passed to family of Lunden, from whom bought (1817) by Baron Stiers d'Aertselaer for 50,000 florins; sold at his death (1822) for 32,700 florins, and taken to England, where it was purchased for £3,500 by Sir Robert Peel, from whose Collection it passed in 1871 to National Gallery. Engraved by Tayler; Reynolds.—Smith, ii. 32, 228; Kett, 110; Waagen, Treasures, i. 398.

Chapeau de Paille, Rubens, National Gallery, London.


CHAPLIN, CHARLES JOSHUA, born at Les Andelys (Eure), June 6, 1825. Figure and portrait painter; pupil of the École des Beaux Arts, and employed in 1860 in decorating the Tuileries, afterwards the rooms of the Empress in the Élysée, the Hotel Musard, and other public and private