Only Connect - Karl Abel <> James Cervetto
How are these sitters connected?
Karl Friedrich Abel
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1765
NPG 5081
A Bravura at the Hanover Square Concert
by John Nixon
1789
NPG 5179
The connection
In 1832, fifty years after the cellist ‘Cervetto’ first played at the ‘Bach-Abel’ concerts, Alfred Edward Chalon drew him, on stage, at eighty-six years of age.
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