Derek and his partner Kenneth Partridge were at No. 8 Chichester Terrace from 1952 until 1964 when Derek bought flat No. 7, 10 Chichester Terrace.
They remained there until some date towards the end of the seventies when he bought flat 5, No 9 Chichester Terrace and knocked No. 7, 10 Chichester Terrace and flat 5, 9 Chichester Terrace into one single flat running across the two houses.
( See House Histories for 9 Chichester Terrace for full biographies )
3 Bas Reliefs
These bas reliefs, remarkably, are identical and represent Thracian mercenaries in the procession of Alexander the Great entering Babylon. After the Alexander Frieze by Bertel Thorvaldsen c.1812The house has two plaster identical bas reliefs believed to have been copied from sections of the 1822 frieze ‘Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon’ by Bertol Thorvaldsen.Commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to celebrate his triumphant entry into Vienna in 1809, the original is in the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, now the Italian Presidential Palace. There are marble and plaster versions of the frieze at the Thorvaldsen Museum at Copenhagen and a plaster version in the Harris Museum Preston UK.Hidden Treasures; the Bas Reliefs on the Kemp Town Estate by Vanessa Minns, published by KTS in 2023, illustrates and documents the provenance of all the 40 bas reliefs on the Estate and indicates where they can be found in other Houses in this country. It can be purchased on Amazon.
