Antoine-Laurent Castellan, a French painter, architect, and engraver, was born at Montpellier in 1772. After having studied landscape painting under Valenciennes, he visited Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and published several series of letters upon those parts, illustrated with views drawn and engraved by himself. His best-known work is the 'Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans,' published in 1812, and highly praised by Lord Byron. He also wrote 'Etudes sur le Chateau de Fontainebleau,' which was not printed until after his death, which occurred in Paris in 1838. Castellan was also the inventor of a new process of painting in wax.
This article incorporates text from the article "CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.