A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
This etching has been attributed to N. Foussin, but
it is by Chiari. Venus and Mercury, with Children.
CHIARI, Giuseppe, was bom at Rome, in 1654. He was a scholar of Carlo Maratti, with whom he executed many excellenteasel pictures, and added to the unfinished worlds of Berrettini in Santa Maria del Suffragio at Rome, the ' Nativity ' and the 'Adoration of the Magi.' His cabinet and easel pictures are preferable to his larger works, although he painted several frescoes of religious, historical, and mythological subjects in the Colonna and Barberini palaces, and on the ceiling in Santa Maria di Montesanto. In the Spada Palace are four pic- tures by him of subjects from Ovid ; in the Dresden Gallery is an ' Adoration uf the Magi ; ' and his own portrait by himself is in the Uffizi, Florence. Three examples of his art are at Hampton Court, and in the collection of Lord Soarsdale at Kedleston Hall, is a ' Holy Trinity.' He died at Rome in 1727.
CHIARINI, Marcantonio, was bom at Bologna in 1652, and was first a scholar of Francesco Quaino, under whom he remained four years ; he afterwards studied under Domenico Santi. He ex- celled in painting architectural views, in which the figures were sometimes introduced by Sigismondo Caula. He was much employed by the nobility at Bologna, Modena, and Milan ; and his pictures were in great estimation. He assisted Carlo Carlone in his decorative fresco paintings in the Marble Hall of the Belvedere, Vienna. He died in 1730.
CHIAVE6HIN0, Ih. See Mainardi.
CHIAVISTELLI, Jacopo, a Florentine painter of perspective and architectural views, was born in 1618. He first studied under Fabrizio Boschi and B. del Bianco ; but he received his best instruction from Michelangelo Colonna. He painted chiefly in fresco, and was emploj-ed in several works at Bologna and Florence, particularly in the palace of the Grand-Duke. He died in 1698. His own portrait by himself is in the Uffizi, Florence.
CHIBOUST, — , was a French engraver, who flourished about the year 1680. He etched a plate, representing Dutch Boors playing at cards, which was probably from his own design, as it is signed, Chiboust fecit. There are also by him a ' Repose,' and various landscapes engraved after J. F. Millet, and other artists.
CHIESA, SiLVESTRO, an Italian historical painter, was born at Genoa about 1623. He was a pupil of Luciano Borzone, and when not more than eighteen years of age had gained a great reputation by his portraits, which were often painted from memory. He gave promise of becoming a great artist, when he was cut off by the plague at Genoa in 1657.
CHIESE, Giovanni della. See Della Chiese.
CHIFFELIN, Olivier, a distinguished historical painter of the 15th century. He was a native of Angers, and was commissioned in 1487 by Philippe de Commines to decorate his chateau of Dreux, the chapel of which has been described in the most glowing terms.
CHILD, James Warren, a miniature painter, exhibited for many years at the Royal Academy. His chief sitters were actors and actresses. He died in 1862, aged 84.
CHILDE, Elias, a landscape painter, exhibited at the Society of British Artists from 1824 to 1848. He also contributed to the exhibitions of the Water- Colour Society and the Royal Academy. A moon- light composition by him is in the South Kensing- ton Museum.
CHIMENTI, Jacopo, called Jacopo da Empoi.i, was born at Empoli, near Florence, in 1554. He was a disciple of Toniaso Manzuoli da San Friano, whose style is discernible in all his works ; he also studied the works of Andrea del Sarto, whom he copied with success. His pictures possess an elegance of design, and a graceful iropasto of colouring, which distinguish the productions of his master. The Abbate Moreni speaks in favourable terms of his fresco works in the Certosa, and in the monastery of Boldrone at Florence, but a fall from the scaffolding obliged him afterwards to confine himself to oil-painting. One of his best pictures is his ' St. Ives,' in the UfiSzi at Florence, which, from its pleasing and graceful effect, is more generally admired than works of higher pretensions. He died in 1640. The following are among his paintings :
Florence. Academy. The Call of St. Matthew. „ &5^ Annunziata. Virgin and Saints. „ ^. Maria Novella. St. Hyacinth. „ Casa BuonaiTOti. Michelangelo before Leo S. — Fresco. n Vffizi. St. Ives, Protector of Orphans. ., „ His own Portrait. Madrid. Museum. Christ on the Mount of Olives. Paris. Louvre. Virgin glorified. Pistoia. iS. Domenico. Miracles of St. Charles Borromeo. Vienna. Susanna at the Bath.
CHINNERY, George, exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy from 1791 to 1846. He at one time resided in Dublin, and in 1798 was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He etched some portraits, which show much ability, and made spirited sketches of scenes in India and China, where he lived for nearly fifty years. He died at Macao about 1850.
CHINTREUIL, Antoine, a French landscape painter, was born at Pont-de-Vaux (Ain) in 1816. He showed an early taste for drawing, and took to teaching it in order to support his family. Later on he opened a bookshop in Paris and continued his drawing work in the evenings, till meeting with assistance from Beranger he was able to establish himself in Toumelle Septeuil near Nantes, and devote himself entirely to his art. He painted, although only self-taught, landscapes remarkable not merely for originality but also for deep feeling. He fell a victim to over-exertion in his J'outh, combined with disappointment at the difficulty he experienced in flnding purchasers for pictures which now realize very high prices. Amongst his works may be noticed ' Morning in the Country,' ' A Shower on the Plain,' ' Entrance to a Wood,' and 'After a Storm.' Two landscapes by him are in the Lille Museum. He died in 1873.
CHIODAROLO, Giovanni Maria, a Bolognese painter, was living in the 15th century. Little further is known of him than that the fresco of 'An Angel crowning St. Valerian and St. Cecilia,' executed about 1509, in the oratory of St. CeciHa, attached to San Giacomo Maggiore, in Bologna, is by tradition assigned to him. It is part of a series, the rest of which were done by Francia, Aspertini, and Costa. A ' Nativity ' in the Bologna Gallery is also ascribed to Chiodarolo.
CHIRINOS, Juan de, a Spanish painter, was born at Madrid in 1564. He was probably a scholar of El Greco, and painted, in conjunction with Bartolom6 de Cardenas, the greater part of the pictures in the convent of Our Lady of Atocha, at Madrid. He was an artist of great merit, and died at Madrid in 1620.
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