Nicholas Chevalier, 1828-1902 Australia's first Impressionist
Morgan, GaryApril 2021
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Nicholas Chevalier, 1828-1902 Australia's first Impressionist
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April 2021
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LIB-EVE 000002
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Nicholas Chevalier, 1828-1902Australia’s first ImpressionistPaintings, Sketches, Etchings, Wood-cut engravings & Lithographs.The Roy Morgan collection covers Nicholas Chevalier’s artistic life beginning in Europe in 1848 including histime in Australia and New Zealand between 1854 and 1869 and finishing in 1871 when he arrived back in London.Nicholas Chevalier’s skills were far reaching – an artist, engraver and musician. The Exhibition clearlyshowcases Nicholas Chevalier’s artistic and creative abilities.Exploring the many facets of the life of Australia’s first Impressionist - Nicholas Chevalier - from his earlylife in Bavaria and Austria portrayed in his 1848 sketchbook of people and landscapes followed by his sixyears in Melbourne producing weekly creative political and social satire sketches seen in Melbourne Punch(from August 1855); and painting important Melbourne scenes, Victorian country landscapes and portraitsfor The News Letter of Australasia, The Illustrated Journal of Australasia, and other Melbourne periodicals.Well before the term ‘Impressionists’ was used Nicholas Chevalier was sketching andpainting his artistic impressions of landscapes and people. His impressionist style portrayedlandscapes of great beauty – far more beautiful than they were in reality, while NicholasChevalier’s artistic impression of people was to show the extremes of character and emotion.Like Alfred Hitchcock 100 years later, he would appear in some of his sketches and paintings, see his1848 sketchbook (recto 21) & New Zealand Tour 1865-1866 paintings; and his artistic impressionsof people portrayed their characters to a greater extent than their looks – indeed this is most clearlyseen in the character portraits and creative political & social satire sketches – using Shakespeareand Dickens characters, 25 years before Dickens characters influenced van Gough’s artistic career.
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