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Joseph Clark exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1857, continuing almost every year until 1904. The Chess Players was one of two works that he showed at the academy in 1860. At this time he was living in London at the Bell Vue Villas in fashionable Holloway. Clark’s paintings capture the spirit of Victorian England with playful titles such as Preparing for Sunday, The New Cap and “Goodnight Father.” Joseph Clark is known to have sent his paintings to America and perhaps this was the case with The Chess Players, which came from a private collection in the USA. In 1876 he was awarded a medal in Philadelphia for two more works shipped there.
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London, Royal Academy, 1860, number 456
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