Antoine Toussaint de Chazal | |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1770 |
Birth Place: | Port Louis, French: italic=no|[[Isle de France (Mauritius)|Isle de France]] |
Death Place: | Moka, French: italic=no|Isle de France |
Nationality: | French |
thumb|upright=1.21|Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders (circa 1806–1807), who circumnavigated and charted the coast of AustraliaAntoine Toussaint de Chazal (1770–1854) was a French settler established as a planter on the French: italic=no|[[Isle de France (Mauritius)|Isle de France]] (now Mauritius).
De Chazal was born on 15 December 1770, in Port Louis, French: italic=no|Isle de France.
He was deputy of the district of Pamplemousses, in the colonial Assembly of the French: italic=no|Isle de France.
He was an amateur painter and is known for his portrait of the British cartographer and Royal Navy captain Matthew Flinders, painted in 1806–1807.[1]
The fourth edition of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists confuses him with the painter Antoine Chazal (1793–1854).
He died in Moka, French: italic=no|Isle de France, on 25 December 1822 and is an ancestor of Malcolm de Chazal.