Only Connect - James Cervetto <> Karl Abel
How are these sitters connected?
A Bravura at the Hanover Square Concert
by John Nixon
1789
NPG 5179
Karl Friedrich Abel
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1765
NPG 5081
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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