chastanier

Updated: May 3, 2025

<b>THURWANGER, FELICITÉ CHASTANIER.</b> This remarkable artist, not long since, when eighty-four years old, sent to the exhibition at Nice which is, in a sense, a branch of the Paris Salon three portraits which she had just finished. "They were hung in the place of honor and unanimously voted to belong to the first class." Mme. Thurwanger was the pupil of Delacroix during five years.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.

Clavel, Ragon, and some other writers have sought to make him the founder of a masonic rite also, but without authority. In 1767 Chastanier established the rite of Illuminated Theosophists, whose instructions are derived from the writings of Swedenborg, but the sage himself had nothing to do with it.

Albert G. Mackey - The Symbolism of Freemasonry