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Julia Smith; Kitty Smith

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Julia Smith; Kitty Smith, by Alfred Edward Chalon, 1836 -NPG 1962(k) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Julia Smith; Kitty Smith

by Alfred Edward Chalon
1836
8 in. x 9 3/4 in. (205 mm x 236 mm)
NPG 1962(k)

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed: I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows./Miss Julia Smith/Miss Smith/St James's Theatre Octr 5th 1836

This portraitback to top

In The Strange Gentleman by Charles Dickens 1836.

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 holding hands and singing the duet by Charles Edward Horn, a popular song from his Honest Frauds.

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.