Alonzo Chappel Explained

Alonzo Chappel
Birth Date:	1 March 1828
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Death Place:	Middle Island, New York, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	painter

Alonzo Chappel (March 1, 1828 – December 4, 1887) was an American historical painter whose ancestors were French Huguenot. He is best known for paintings depicting personalities and events from the American Revolution and early 19th-century American history.

Biography

Chappel was born in New York City and died in Middle Island, New York.^[1]

His 1857 painting Enlisting Foreign Officers is in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.^[2]

Many of his paintings appear in the History of the United States of America, by J. A. Spencer. For example, the painting Drafting The Declaration of Independence is an engraving done in 1857.^[3]

External links

• 166 works by Alonzo Chappel
• Alonzo Chappel's work in Spencer’s History of the United States, 1858

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alonzo Chappel. Smithsonian Institution. 2009-01-22.
2. Web site: Enlisting Foreign Officers - Museum of the American Revolution. www.amrevmuseum.org.
3. Web site: History of the United States of America. Johnson, Fry and Company. New York. August 25, 2022.