Abigail Betts; Harriet Catherine Fiddes (née Cawse)
1 portrait of Harriet Catherine Fiddes (née Cawse)
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Regency Portraits Catalogue
Abigail Betts; Harriet Catherine Fiddes (née Cawse)
by Alfred Edward Chalon
circa 1828
12 1/2 in. x 8 3/4 in. (320 mm x 220 mm)
NPG 1962(j)
This portraitback to top
In Tit For Tat, a version of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tulle, performed at the English Opera House in July 1828.
The Chalon brothers painted a wide variety of subjects, mainly in watercolour. Alfred Chalon became a fashionable portraitist, painting, among others, a very successful head of Princess Charlotte and one of the first portraits of Queen Victoria after her accession. Theatrical caricatures were an unusual genre for him though the V&A Museum has a sizeable collection of them.
Physical descriptionback to top
Whole-lengths standing in long dresses and extravagantly plumed hats.
Provenanceback to top
Probably Chalon sale, Christie's 13 March 1861 (390), as 'Theatrical Reminiscences. Vol. i: a scrapbook containing admirable caricatures of celebrated singers and dancers'; Mrs Florence A. Blake and bought from her 1922.
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.