Albert Charles Challen

Albert Charles Challen (8 October 1847 in Islington – 1 September 1881 in Camberwell) was a British artist.

[2] Born in Islington, the 1871 UK census shows Challen living in Hammersmith, with his profession given as "art student (painting)".

[2] Based on this evidence, historian Helen Rappaport theorised that the Seacole portrait (which she had discovered) may have been an practice project for Challen, or done before he had attended art school; suggesting that the artist and subject may have personally known one another.

[3] Challen died of tuberculosis[3] at the age of 33 on 1 September 1881 in Camberwell, Surrey.

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