Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Anna Eliza Bray (née Kempe) (1790-1883), Novelist

Novelist; née Kempe; married first the artist, Charles Alfred Stothard (1786-1821), and secondly the Rev Edward Atkyns Bray (1778-1857); published several novels of historical character between 1826 and 1874, besides other writings.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, 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.