Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud

Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (; 29 January 1858 – 5 February 1919) was a French sculptor. He created several notable works in France and in England, where he lived for 15 years.

Early life Chavalliaud (sometimes spelt Chavaillaud) 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. This sculpture 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. 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. 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 mayor of Rheims at the time, which is kept in the town hall. For that sculpture in plaster in 1915, Chavalliaud received 800 francs.

Works exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

1893. Mon Pere; bust, bronze, also exhibited at The Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899

St. Ambrosia, bronze bust, kept in the Rheims Museum of Fine Arts. A bronze bust of George Bernard Shaw

A bronze relief of James Robert Creighton, twice Mayor of Carlisle, and surmounting statue of St George on the Grade II listed Creighton Memorial.

A bronze bust of Rev. James Healy. 1895 The effigy on the tomb of the Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster in St Mary's Church, Eccleston, Cheshire A bust of William Talbot in Norwich. Bishop of Oxford 1904, founder of the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office in Norwich

A bust of French merchant Henry Vasnier, kept in the Rheims Museum of Fine Arts A memorial bronze bust to Bartèlèmy Paupy, a French industrialist. 1892, In the Cimetière de l'Est, Paris. Signed "from a photograph".

A memorial plaque for Abbé Declaire in the Cimetière du nord, Reims