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Possibly Adelaide Kemble

10 of 180 portraits by Alfred Edward Chalon

Possibly Adelaide Kemble, by Alfred Edward Chalon, 1830 -NPG 1962(d) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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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)

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed in ink: A Kemble 1830

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.