Louis Chéron
Louis Chéron (French pronunciation: [lwi ʃeʁɔ̃]; 2 September 1660 – 26 May 1725) was a French painter, illustrator and art tutor.
Life
Chéron was born in Paris, into a French Protestant family of artists (his father being the miniaturist and engraver Henri Chéron and his elder sister the painter and engraver
He returned to France, winning several commissions but in the wake of the persecutions after the edict of Nantes's revocation in 1685 he decided to leave France (possibly encouraged by Ralph Montagu, later one of his patrons), showing up in the registers of the Huguenot congregation at the Savoy Chapel in London in 1693. He was made a naturalised Briton in 1710, worked on Montague House (1706–12), Burghley House and Chatsworth House and was one of five artists who submitted drawings for St Paul's Cathedral's dome.[1] He also produced engraved images with James Thornhill.[2]
In 1718, Chéron and
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Graves, Robert Edmund (1887). "Chéron, Louis". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 188–189.
Sources
- Cast, David (2004). "Chéron, Louis". In Matthew, H. C. G. & Harrison, Brian (eds.). OCLC 1035756854– via the Internet Archive.
Further reading
- Brême, Dominique (1996). "Louis Chéron". In Turner, Jane (ed.). OCLC 1033650868– via the Internet Archive.
- Locquin, Jean (1912). "Chéron, Louis". In OCLC 1039486564– via the Internet Archive.
- Pointon, Marcia R. (1970). Milton and English Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press – via the Internet Archive.
- OCLC 1039484687– via the Internet Archive.