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Alice Mary Chambers (active 1854/55-1920)


Alice Mary Chambers (active 1854/55-1920)

Alice Mary Chambers was a significant figure in British artistic circles of the late nineteenth century, and in particular was a valued friend of the infamous artists’ agent, Charles Augustus Howell. Her beautiful drawings and watercolours reveal a debt to both Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism, and especially to the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Alice Mary Chambers was born in Harlow, Essex, in either 1854 or 1855, the daughter of the Rev John Charles Chambers, a controversial figure in the Anglican Church, and his wife, Mary (née Upton). Their two older children had both died in infancy in 1852. At the time of her birth, Alice’s father was vicar of St Mary Magdalene in Harlow, but, in 1856, he became perpetual curate of St Mary’s, Crown Street, and warden of the House of Charity, both in Soho, London, positions that he retained until his death. He has been described as turning ‘St Mary’s into a model for managing a parish along ritualist [or Anglo-Catholic] lines’ (Morris, 2004).

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