Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in Coronation Robes

Location

Country: Sweden
City: Stockholm
Place: British Embassy

Alfred Edward Chalon was born in Geneva but moved to England as a child, when his father was made French professor at Sandhurst. He began his studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 1797 and, having become a fashionable portraitist, was elected a Royal Academician in 1816. Chalon was the first to paint Queen Victoria on her accession to the throne. He was later appointed her official Portrait Painter in Water-colours. His brother, John James Chalon (1778-1854), was also a painter and together they established the Society for the Study of Epic and Pastoral Design in 1808, also known as the Bread and Cheese Society, and the Chalon Sketching Society. Chalon died in Kensington in 1860 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
Samuel Cousins was a well known mezzotint engraver of portraits and decorative subjects after his contemporaries and 18th-century British artists. Born in Exeter, he was the pupil of, and assistant to, the engraver S. W. Reynolds. Cousins set up his own business in London in 1825 and would later become the first engraver to be elected a Royal Academician. He engraved plates after the foremost artists of his day including Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873). His younger brother Henry Cousins (c.1809-1864) was also a mezzotint engraver.

People

Victoria (1819 - 1901)

Places

Subjects

royal portrait, rose, lion, woman, 19th century costume, ceremonial costume, ermine, robe, ring, bracelet, necklace, earring, glove, riband, badge, crown, Queen, coronation, balustrade, pillar (architectural feature), steps, curtain, carpet

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Alfred Edward Chalon (1780 - 1860)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)

Title

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in Coronation Robes

Date

originally published 28 June 1838

Medium

Mezzotint

Dimensions

height: 92.50 cm, width: 63.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 12 February 1980

Provenance

Christie's 12/2/1980 (98)

GAC number

14946