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Antoine Toussaint de Chazal (1770–1854) was a French settler established as a planter on the Isle de France (now Mauritius).

Antoine Toussaint de Chazal
Born	(1770-12-15)15 December 1770 Port Louis, Isle de France
Died	25 December 1822(1822-12-25) (aged 52) Moka, Isle de France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Planter Artist

De Chazal was born on 15 December 1770, in Port Louis, Isle de France.

He was deputy of the district of Pamplemousses, in the colonial Assembly of the 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, Isle de France, on 25 December 1822 and is an ancestor of Malcolm de Chazal.

Work

• Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, oil on canvas, 50x64.5 cm. Gift of David Roche in memory of his father, J.D.K. Roche, and the South Australian Government 2000, to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

References

• "Flinders Captain Flinders at Flinders: an exhibition of his oil portrait by Chazal", Adelaide, Flinders University Library, 1988.
• Regnard, Noël (1975). Filiations mauriciennes (in French). Vol. No. 84. Port-Louis: Esclapon. p. 18.
• Beaufils, Laurent (1995). Malcolm de Chazal (in French). Paris: Éditions de la Différence. p. 13.

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