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John James Chalon was born at Geneva in 1778, of an old French family who had taken refuge there after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was a painter of a wide range of subjects — landscapes, marine scenes, animal life, and figure-pieces. He went to England when quite young, and entered the Schools of the Academy in 1796. His first picture, 'Banditti at their Repast,' appeared in 1800. In 1808, he, his brother Alfred Edward Chalon, and some friends, founded the Sketching Society, and in the same year he joined the Water-Colour Society, but in 1813 he seceded from it, and again devoted himself to painting pictures in oil for the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of that institution in 1827, and an Academician in 1841. In 1820 Chalon published a series of 'Sketches from Parisian Manners,' in which the incidents were admirably varied, and so selected as to display the most amusing points of national character in connection with all that was most picturesque in the costume of the time, and with that true humour which never degenerates into caricature.