Antoine Toussaint de Chazal


file:Toussaint Antoine DE CHAZAL DE Chamerel - Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, RN, 1774-1814 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=1.21|Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, who circumnavigated and charted the coast of Australia
Antoine Toussaint de Chazal was a French settler established as a planter on the italic=no.
De Chazal was born on 15 December 1770, in Port Louis, italic=no.
He was deputy of the district of Pamplemousses, in the colonial Assembly of the italic=no.
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.
The fourth edition of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists confuses him with the painter Antoine Chazal.
He died in Moka, italic=no, on 25 December 1822 and is an ancestor of Malcolm de Chazal.

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