Antoine Toussaint de Chazal

Antoine Toussaint de Chazal

human

Ein sex anaa gender	male
Country wey e be citizen	Mauritius
Name wey dem give am	Antoine
Ein date of birth	15 December 1770
Place dem born am	Port Louis
Date wey edie	25 December 1822
Place wey edie	Moka District
Ein occupation	politician, painter
Work period (start)	1700
Work period (end)	1799
Has works in the collection	Art Gallery of South Australia
Copyright status as creator	copyrights on works have expired

Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders (circa 1806–1807), wey circumnavigate den chart de coast of Australia

Antoine Toussaint de Chazal (1770–1854) na he be a French settler wey he establish as a planter for de Isle de France (now Mauritius).

Na dem born De Chazal for 15 December 1770, insyd Port Louis, Isle de France.

Na he be deputy of de district of Pamplemousses, insyd de colonial Assembly of de Isle de France.

Na he be an amateur painter wey na dem know am for ein portrait of de British cartographer den Royal Navy captain Matthew Flinders, he paint insyd 1806–1807.

De fourth edition of de Benezit Dictionary of Artists dey confuse am plus de painter Antoine Chazal (1793–1854).

He die insyd Moka, Isle de France, for 25 December 1822 wey he be an ancestor of Malcolm de Chazal.

Work

• Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, oil on canvas, 50x64.5 cm. Gift of David Roche in memory of his father, J.D.K. Roche, and the South Australian Government 2000, to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

External links

• "Flinders Captain Flinders at Flinders: an exhibition of his oil portrait by Chazal", Adelaide, Flinders University Library, 1988.
• Regnard, Noël (1975). Filiations mauriciennes (in French). Vol. 84. Port-Louis: Esclapon. p. 18.
• Beaufils, Laurent (1995). Malcolm de Chazal (in French). Paris: Éditions de la Différence. p. 13.