Charles Joshua Chaplin

His mother, Olympia Adelle Moisy, was French, whereas his father, John Chaplin, was an art broker from England.

Chaplin conducted art classes specifically for women at his studio, including Marie Joséphine Nicolas.

Chaplin died on 30 January 1891, aged 65, in Paris as a wealthy man and is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

His early works, from 1848 to 1851, were painted in a manner characterized by an interest in realism, a style established in the French Second Republic, that had the motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and was ruled for three years by the republican government of France from the 1848 Revolution until the 1851 coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.

[6] Chaplin painted many works in his early days, including floral studies that were displayed at the Salon de las Flores.

He developed his very own style of painting but was inspired by the British painters Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough.

[2] Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III and an admirer of the "Pompadour style", rapidly fell under the enchantment of the painter's neo-Rococo works.

In 1859, when his portrait of Aurora was banned by the judges of the Salon as "too erotically suggestive", Napoléon III defended Chaplin and overturned the disqualification order.

Chaplin painted the doors and several glass panels above them of the Salon des Fleurs in the Tuileries Palace.

Described by the auctioneer as a landscape painting by Charles Chaplin, it achieved an unexpectedly high price for an artist considered to have "fallen into oblivion".

[13] The New York Times reported it stating: "The disappointment of the ultimate buyer may be imagined when it was discovered that the picture was by an almost forgotten artist.