Regency Portraits Catalogue
Charles Incledon (1763-1826), Singer and actor
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Hall's Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits in … Harvard College Library lists 17 prints mostly in character. Straight portraits are:
1794
Drawing by Edridge, engraved by Ridley for Parson's Minor Theatre, 1794.
1798
Drawing by Dance (NPG 1145).
c.1800
Oil by Mather Brown offered to the NPG in 1928 by the widow of Incledon's great-grandson, Marianne Brausewetter of Vienna, who claimed the portrait as a Lawrence and given to the sitter by the artist; Ridley's stipple engraving published in The Monthly Mirror, 30 September 1801 gives the artist's name as M. Brown, a more likely attribution for the oil.
1804
Miniature by J. T. Barber (Beaumont), hands clasped singing 'The Storm', exhibited RA 1804 (737) and frequently engraved thereafter, eg by Vendramini 1812 and as a whole-length lithograph by Ayton, August 1826.
1805
Drawing by Dighton engraved by Mackenzie for the Thespian Dictionary, 1805, head and shoulders to left in high white neckcloth.
c.1815
Oil attributed to Shee in Royal College of Music, half-length in black coat and white waistcoat.
Undated
Silhouette in Garrick Club.
Miniature by Engleheart, profile to right engraved by Godby.
Miniature by Horace Hone, identity doubtful (W. G. Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists, 1913, I, p 511).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
1794
Drawing by Edridge, engraved by Ridley for Parson's Minor Theatre, 1794.
1798
Drawing by Dance (NPG 1145).
c.1800
Oil by Mather Brown offered to the NPG in 1928 by the widow of Incledon's great-grandson, Marianne Brausewetter of Vienna, who claimed the portrait as a Lawrence and given to the sitter by the artist; Ridley's stipple engraving published in The Monthly Mirror, 30 September 1801 gives the artist's name as M. Brown, a more likely attribution for the oil.
1804
Miniature by J. T. Barber (Beaumont), hands clasped singing 'The Storm', exhibited RA 1804 (737) and frequently engraved thereafter, eg by Vendramini 1812 and as a whole-length lithograph by Ayton, August 1826.
1805
Drawing by Dighton engraved by Mackenzie for the Thespian Dictionary, 1805, head and shoulders to left in high white neckcloth.
c.1815
Oil attributed to Shee in Royal College of Music, half-length in black coat and white waistcoat.
Undated
Silhouette in Garrick Club.
Miniature by Engleheart, profile to right engraved by Godby.
Miniature by Horace Hone, identity doubtful (W. G. Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists, 1913, I, p 511).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.