Possibly Adelaide Kemble
10 of 180 portraits by Alfred Edward Chalon
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Regency Portraits Catalogue
Possibly Adelaide Kemble
by Alfred Edward Chalon
1830
5 7/8 in. x 4 in. (148 mm x 102 mm)
NPG 1962(d)
This portraitback to top
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
Profile to right, hair piled on head, large nose, receding chin. It has been suggested that she may be Adelaide Kemble (Mrs Edward John Sartorius).
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.