CORBOULD, Alfred Hitchens

1821 - 1874

Alfred Hitchens Corbould was born on 2 November 1821, twin son with Henry, of Henry Corbould (1787-9 December 1844), who worked in the art department at the British Museum, and his wife Mary Pickles (1786-31 March 1827), only daughter of Thomas Pickles, Esq. who married at Chelsea in 1812. Alfred and his twin brother Henry were sent to a boarding school in Bayswater for their education. During these early years, Alfred developed an interest in equestrian activities and often sketched horses alongside his formal studies and to further his development, he spent time at Tattersalls Sale Ring, Newmarket, in Suffolk, where he gained ample opportunity to study the horses for sale at auction. Following on, in around 1844, he began studying under John Frederick Herring Sr. (1795-1865) and clearly enamoured with this opportunity, Alfred produced a portrait of his tutor in 1847. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1844 and he exhibited some 27 works in total. He married at St Mary's Chapel, Fulham, London on 31 October 1848, Mary Grace Keene (1826-8 March 1895), eldest daughter of the late Samuel Brown Keene, solicitor of Furnival's Inn, London and of Ipswich, and his wife Mary Grace, daughter of John Sparrowe of the Ancient House, Ipswich, Mary Grace was the sister of Charles Samuel Keene. Alfred died at his residence 86 Warwick Gardens, London on 5 December 1874. They had five children including artists Walton Corbould and Alfred Chantrey Corbould. At the Suffolk Fine Arts Association exhibition at Ipswich in 1850 was exhibited by A. Corbould 'Jack-in-the-Box' which is a portrait of a donkey looking over a wall, is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Aster Richard Chilton Corbould. Information provided by Alfred Hitchins Corbould researcher Andrew Shields.

Note: Aster Richard Chilton Corbould 1811-1882 painter of cattle and landscape. He lived at 9 Bankside and has been conflated as Alfred Corbould as 'A Corbould' in the Royal Academy from 1835 onwards and is also listed at A R Corbould.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 21 Rutland Gate, Hyde Park, London
1844 423 The Keeper's Companion
from 22 Gloucester Place, Camden Town, London
1845 295 On the Moors
1846 243 Jack-in-the-Box
         692 Meadow Scene: Evening
from Hyde Park Corner
1847 494 Ostler's Bell
from Eldon Lodge, Victoria Road, Kensington
1854 1086 Miss Helen J. Sandeman
1855 1326 Portrait
1856 121 Mrs S.B. Keene
1859 886 First Regiment of the Life Guards...at Wormwood Scrubbs
1861 133 Rotten Row
1862 392 Children of the Earl and Countess of Tankerville with Favourite
         663 Frederick, younger son of the Earl and Countess of Tankerville
1864 333 The Youthful Apollo
         482 Major Stapylton's Phaeton Horses
from 9 Warwick Crescent, Kensington
1866 135 A Youth
         226 Walton Corbould
         345 Portrait of a Child
         542 Brigade Field-day, Wormwood Scrubbs
1867 92 Magdalen, daughter of George Finch, Esq.
         305 The late Earl of Rossln
         453 Miss Balfour
         463 Hunters. The property of W.W. Tailby, Esq.
1868 680 Portraits at Bilbirnie
1869 114 John Patteson Cobbold, Esq., Mayor of Ipswich 1868
1870 439 Mrs Craven on her favourite mare
         913 Melbourne, the favourite hunter of the Rev. James Holden
         921 Madras Hunt
1874 62 Major
1875 59 Highlans Stots and Gillie

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Works by This Artist