Charles Joshua Chaplin - Muchacha con paloma, 1868

Charles Joshua Chaplin was a French painter and engraver. Born in Les Andelys in France. Although he spent his entire life in France, Chaplin became a citizen of this country only in 1886. Charles began studying painting in 1840 at the School of Fine Arts with Michel-Martin Drelling. His style was academic art, or academism, a style produced under the influence of European academies of art. The themes of his work are portraits of women and children (he often painted his daughter) in the tradition of the great English portrait painters of the 18th century. But he also painted animals and landscapes.