Record ID:
35027847 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18280509
  • St. Petersburg, Russia
Death:
  • 19020315
  • London, England
Fields of activity:
  • accomplished musician linguist
Occupations:
  • artist engraver cartoonist painter
Used for:
  • Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902
Notes:
  • Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1828; studied painting in Lausanne and architecture in Munich; moved to London 1851; successfully exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy; arrived in Melbourne 1855 and became involved with the publications Melbourne Punch and Illustrated Australian News; married Caroline Wilkie; introduced chromo-lithography to Victoria; was invited to join the Duke of Edinburgh on H.M.S. Galatea to sail to London in 1868; died in London 1902.
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography WWW site, 17 March, 2014 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chevalier-nicholas-3200
  • MITCHELL RIVER, 1865
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1594013
  • 000000027983
  • abv00084233
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc