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léon-joseph chavalliaud

léon-joseph chavalliaud -lrb- 29 jan 1858 -- 5 feb 1923 -rrb- was a french sculptor .
he created several notable works in france and in england where he lived for 15 years .
chavalliaud -lrb- sometimes spelt chavaillaud -rrb- was born in reims at no. 47 chativesle st. and died at boissy-sans-avoir , yvelines .
he is buried in the north cemetery in rheims .
he married juliana marie rousseau .
he was an apprentice modeller in the workshop of a mr bulteau in rheims , in buirette st. , very close to his place of birth .
later he entered the rheims college of fine arts with a grant from the city council .
there , he was a pupil of alexandre falguière , françois jouffroy and louis-august roubaud .
in 1880 , after working on the caryatids on the façade of the town hall patio in rheims he won the ` prix de roma ' with a sculpture called `` mère spartiate '' -lrb- spartan mother -rrb- .
the caryatids were partly destroyed in a fire in 1917 .
the remains of the statues now decorate the front of the georget hotel at no. 43 talleyrand st. , rheims .
in 1890 , together with a sculptor deperthes and his son , chavalliaud created a monument commemorating the brittany-anjou federation of 1790 which was installed near morbihan , pontivy , in brittany .
this was destroyed with dynamite by breton separatists in 1938 in the 1890s he received a commission in england and remained in britain for fifteen years living in brixton , london .
during this time he occasionally worked for -lrb- or with -rrb- farmer and brindley , an architectural sculpture company .
he also exhibited at the national gallery summer exhibition .
and the walker gallery in liverpool .
amongst the works he completed were eight statues of famous naturalists and explorers .
commissioned in 1896 they stand outside at the eight angles of the palm house in sefton park , liverpool .
the marble statues are of the naturalists ; carl linnaeus , charles darwin , john parkinson -lrb- a botanist -rrb- and andré le nôtre -lrb- a landscape gardener -rrb- .
the bronze statues are of the explorers and navigators ; henry the navigator , gerardus mercator , christopher columbus and captain james cook .
he made a memorial to the actress mrs `` sarah siddons as the tragic muse '' , in white marble which stands on paddington green , london near the churchyard of st mary 's church where she is buried .
a statue of cardinal newman by chavalliaud is installed at brompton oratory in london .
in the salon of the french artists ' society in 1897 he presented a statuette of dom perignon with an inscription which reads '' `` dom perignon , the inventor of sparkling champagne wines '' '' .
it was sold in rheims in 1989 for # 1,097 .
in his birth city he continued to produce bust portraits and developed a solid reputation .
among others he created a bust of dr. jean-baptiste langlet , the then mayor of rheims , which is kept in the town hall .
for that sculpture in plaster in 1915 chavalliaud received 800 francs .
