Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chalmers, W. A.

CHALMERS, W. A. (fl. 1798), water-colour painter, chiefly of architectural subjects, worked in London towards the end of the last century. From 1790 to 1794 he exhibited nine pictures at the Royal Academy. In the former year he appeared with a ‘View in the Collegiate Church, Westminster,’ and ‘Mrs. Jordan as Sir Harry Wildair;’ in 1791 two interiors of Westminster Abbey; in 1792 ‘The Interment of the late President (Sir Joshua Reynolds) at St. Paul's;’ in 1793 ‘The Interior of Henry VII's Chapel with the Ceremony of the Installation;’ and in the next year the ‘West Front of the Abbey, Bath.’ After an interval of four years he exhibited in 1798 ‘Mr. Kemble as the “Stranger,”’ and the ‘Tomb of Henry VII.’ He seems to have died young.

[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists.]