Chavalliaud (sometimes spelt Chavaillaud) was born in
Reims
Reims ( ; ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French Departments of France, department of Marne (department), Marne, and the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 12th most populous city in Fran ...
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the ÃŽle-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207. He married Juliana Marie Rousseau.
He was an apprentice modeller in the workshop of a Mr Bulteau in Rheims, in Buirette St., very close to his place of birth. Later he entered the
with a grant from the city council. There, he was a pupil of
Alexandre Falguière
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (; also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (7 September 183120 April 1900) was a French sculptor and painter.
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Falguière was born in Toulouse. A pupil of the ...
,
François Jouffroy
François Jouffroy (; 1 February 1806 – 25 June 1882) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Jouffroy was born in Dijon, France, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...
and Louis-August Roubaud.
Works
In 1880, after working on the
caryatids
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on the façade of the town hall patio in Rheims, he won the Prix de Roma with a sculpture called ''Mère Spartiate'' (Spartan Mother). The caryatids were partly destroyed in a fire in 1917. The remains of the statues now decorate the front of the Georget Hotel in Rheims.
In 1890, together with sculptor Deperthes and his son, Chavalliaud created a monument commemorating the Brittany-Anjou Federation of 1790, which was installed near Morbihan, Pontivy, in Brittany. This sculpture was destroyed with dynamite by Breton separatists in 1938.
In the 1890s, he received a commission in England and remained in Britain for fifteen years, living in
Brixton
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,
London
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. During this time, he occasionally worked for (or with)
Farmer & Brindley
Farmer & Brindley was a firm of architectural sculptors and ornamentalists based in London, founded by William Farmer (1825–1879) and William Brindley (1832–1919).
The firm, located on Westminster Bridge Road in Lambeth, south London, flour ...
, an architectural sculpture company. He also exhibited at the
National Gallery
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Summer Exhibition. and the
Walker Gallery
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in Liverpool.
Amongst the works he completed were eight statues of famous naturalists and explorers. Commissioned in 1896, they stand outside at the eight angles of the Palm House in
Sefton Park
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,
Liverpool
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Charles Darwin
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(a landscape gardener). The bronze statues are of the explorers and navigators
Henry the Navigator
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Gerardus Mercator
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,
Christopher Columbus
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, and Captain
James Cook
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.
He made a memorial in white marble Statue of Sarah Siddons to actress Sarah Siddons, inspired by the painting ''
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
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'' by
Joshua Reynolds
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, which stands on
Paddington Green, London
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near the churchyard of St Mary's Church where she is buried. A statue of
Cardinal Newman
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by Chavalliaud is installed at
Brompton Oratory
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in London.
In the salon of the French Artists' Society in 1897, he presented a statuette of
Dom Perignon
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with an inscription which reads "Dom Perignon, the inventor of sparkling Champagne wines". It was sold in Rheims in 1989 for £1,097.
In his birth city, he continued to produce bust portraits and developed a solid reputation. Among others, he created a bust of Dr. Jean-Baptiste Langlet, the mayor of Rheims at the time, which is kept in the town hall. For that sculpture in plaster in 1915, Chavalliaud received 800 francs.
* 1893. ''Mon Pere''; bust, bronze, also exhibited at The Second Exhibition of The
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
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(London), 1899
* 1894. ''The Shrimper''; statue in marble (a boy holding a shrimp net).
* 1894. '' Madame Veuve Pommery''; portrait bust in marble.
* 1895. ''A. Hubinet, Esq.''; bust, bronze.
* 1896. ''A. Paroissien, Esq.''; bust.
* 1904. ''Portrait''; bust, bronze. (may be duplicated in the list below)
Other works
* ''Tobias Taking the Fish from the Water'', kept in the Rheims Museum of Fine Arts. 1890
* ''St. Ambrosia'', bronze bust, kept in the Rheims Museum of Fine Arts.
* A bronze bust of
George Bernard Shaw
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* A bronze relief of James Robert Creighton, twice Mayor of Carlisle, and surmounting statue of St George on the Grade II listed Creighton Memorial.
* A bronze bust of Rev. James Healy. 1895
* The effigy on the tomb of the
Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
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Cheshire
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Norwich
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. Bishop of Oxford 1904, founder of the
Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office
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in
Norwich
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* A bust of French merchant Henry Vasnier, kept in the Rheims Museum of Fine Arts
* A memorial bronze bust to Bartèlèmy Paupy, a French industrialist. 1892, In the Cimetière de l'Est,
Paris
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