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Andre Chéronnet Champollion

Andre Chéronnet Champollion (1880 - 1915) was active/lived in New Hampshire / France.  Andre Champollion is known for Paintings from his travels to India.

Andre Chéronnet Champollion was a gentleman scholar and artist. He was born in Paris September 20, 1880 into an adventurous family. His grandfather, Jean-François Champollion, deciphered the Rosetta stone.

His parents died when he was young, and he was sent to St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Champollion entered Harvard University in 1898 and graduated in 1902. The next year he traveled around the world with two friends from college and kept notebooks and sketchbooks during the trip. He was inspired to become a painter by the example of Vereshchagin, who depicted scenes from the Russo-Japanese War with intense realism.

Champollion was called for military service in France. Frenchmen holding a French university degree were allowed a shorter service, but he was not eligible since his degree was from an American university. Consequently, in 1904 he became an American citizen. He later returned to France and was reinstated because of a military amnesty tha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1432 characters.]  Artist bio

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