Julia Smith; Kitty Smith
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- set matching 'Opera singers and others: by Alfred Edward Chalon'
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
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.