 Chevalier was a man of much personal charm and spoke fluent French, English, Russian, German, Italian and Portuguese.He was a good amateur musician being second violinist in the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society which had been started by officers in the "Galatea" and in which the duke was first violin.The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Library of Australia (Canberra) are among the public collections holding works by Nicholas Chevalier.