Alonzo Chappel (March 1, 1828 – December 4, 1887) was an American historical painter whose ancestors were French Huguenot. He is best known for paintings depicting personalities and events from the American Revolution and early 19th-century American history.

Chappel was born in New York City and died in Middle Island, New York.^[1]

His 1857 painting Enlisting Foreign Officers is in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.^[2]

Many of his paintings appear in the History of the United States of America[rdp-wiki-embed url='https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameerika_%C3%9Chendriigid'] More, by J. A. Spencer. For example, the painting Drafting The Declaration of Independence is an engraving done in 1857.^[3]

Chappel's oil painting: Fate of Jane Wells, depicting the Cherry Valley Massacre of November 1778 is in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.^[4]

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  Declaration of Independence (1857)
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  Battle of Long Island (1858)
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  Massacre of Wyoming (Pennsylvania), July 3-4, 1778 (1858)
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  John Smith Saved by Pocahontas (c. 1865)
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  Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly (1867)
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  Boston Massacre (1868)

Media related to Alonzo Chappel at Wikimedia Commons

• 166 works by Alonzo Chappel
• Alonzo Chappel's work in Spencer’s History of the United States, 1858