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Alice Mary Chambers 1855 - 1920. Framed 1880s Sanguine Red Chalk Drawing Portrait Of Portrait Of Rebecca Porter Paddon Of Dorset. Pre- Raphaelite Movement.

£2,495    $3,161    €3,001
Alice Mary Chambers.
 
English ( b.1855 - d.1920 ).
 
Portrait Of Rebecca Porter Paddon 1850 – 1915 (nee Somerset).
 
Red Chalk On Paper.
 
Signed With Monogram Upper Left.
 
Image size 17.9 inches x 14.8 inches ( 45.5cm x 37.5cm ).
 
Frame size 25 inches x 21.9 inches ( 63.5cm x 55.5cm ).
 
Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original sanguine red chalk portrait drawing on paper is by the English female artist Alice Mary Chambers and dates from around 1880 to 1885.
 
The drawing is presented and supplied in a glazed frame dating from the 1990s which uses a backboard and mount from the 1960s (which is shown in these photographs).
 
This antique drawing is in very good condition. It is supplied ready to hang and display.
 
The drawing is signed with the artist’s monogram upper left.
 
Provenance: By descent through the sitter’s family.
 
Alice Mary Chambers was part of the ‘aesthetic’ phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the late nineteenth century. He was a close friend of Charles Howell, Whistler and Dante Gabrielle Rossetti, whose influence can be seen in her work.
 
She was born in Essex, the daughter of a controversial figure in the Anglican Church, she was brought up largely by her mother and attended a school in Sydenham.
 
Alice was known as an artist by 1875 and exhibited her works at the major galleries, including the Royal Academy between 1881-1894. She specialised in drawings of female and mythological figures.
 
Alice became a close friend, and possibly lover, of the infamous collector and artists’ agent Charles Augustus Howell, through whom she made connections with other contemporary artists. She lived for some time at an address used by other Pre-Raphaelite artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, W.H. Deverall, and Edward Burne-Jones.
 
In 1913 Chambers donated Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s plaster death mask to the National Portrait Gallery.
 
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Antique #SA1104305, shown on this page, originates from 1880. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
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