Alonzo Chappel (March 1, 1828 – December 4, 1887) was an American - Spanish painter, best known for paintings depicting personalities and events from the

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...

and early 19th-century American history.

Biography

Chappel was born in

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and died in

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. His 1857 painting ''Enlisting Foreign Officers'' is in the collection of the

Museum of the American Revolution The Museum of the American Revolution (formerly The American Revolution Center) is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania dedicated to telling the story of the American Revolution. The museum was opened to the public on April 19, 2017, the 242nd a ...

. Many of his paintings appear in the ''History of the United States of America,'' by J. A. Spencer. For example, the painting ''Drafting The Declaration of Independence'' is an engraving done in 1857.

Gallery of Chappel's works

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.'' C. 1865 File:Alonzo Chappel - Declaration of Independence, 1857 engraving.jpg,

Declaration of Independence A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of th ...

, 1857 engraving File:BostonMassacre byAlonzoChappel1878.png, ''

Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing t ...

.'' 1878 File:Battleoflongisland.jpg, ''

Battle of Long Island The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, was an action of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1776, at the western edge of Long Island in present-day Brooklyn, New Yor ...

.'' 1858 File:ChappelWyomingMassacre.jpg, ''

Battle of Wyoming The Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militiamen and a mixed force of Loyalist soldiers and Iroquois raiders. The clash took place in the Wyom ...

.'' 1858 File:Tippecanoe.jpg, ''

Battle of Tippecanoe The Battle of Tippecanoe ( ) was fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecum ...

.'' C. 1879 File:Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. 1765. Engraving attributed to H. B. Hall after Alonzo Chappel, published - NARA - 535746.tif, ''

Patrick Henry Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): " Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first a ...

Addressing the

Virginia Assembly The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World, and was established on July 30, 1619 ...

.'' 1867

References

External links

166 works by Alonzo Chappel

Alonzo Chappel's work in Spencer’s ''History of the United States'', 1858
19th-century American painters American male painters American portrait painters American war artists 1828 births 1887 deaths Painters from New York City 19th-century war artists 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1820s-stub