| Method | Pencil drawing |
| Artist | after Richard Westall |
| Published | c.1820 |
| Dimensions | Image & Sheet 203 x 158 mm |
| Notes |
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22nd January 1788 - 19th April 1824) was a celebrated British poet and leading figure of the British Romantic movement. A legend in his own lifetime throughout Europe, Byron was famous for his good looks and his brilliant, reckless personality. A poet of travel and romance, and a scintillating satirist, he lived abroad from 1816 in self-imposed exile and died of fever at Missolonghi where he had joined the Greeks in their fight for independence from Turkish rule. Byron's tragic demise placed the poet alongside his departed friends and fellow poets, Keats and Shelley, and secured his immortality with the British public. The profile portrait by Richard Westall, upon which this drawing was based, was painted in 1813 when Byron was twenty-five; he died eleven years later. Richard Westall (1765-1836) was a history painter. He was apprenticed to a heraldic silver engraver in London in 1779 before studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1785. He exhibited at the Academy regularly between 1784 and 1836, became an Associate in November 1792 and was elected an Academician in 1794. Condition: Laid to album page, very small water stains to centre of image. Horizontal scratch to image surface to the bottom of image. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £100.00 |
| Stock ID | 25203 |