Title

Chevalier, Nicholas.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2001

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

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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