6th Lord Byron, the most talked about literary figure of his generation, retains at least three lasting claims on the attention of art history: as a writer who inspired artists, as a portraitist's ...

Following Byron's death in 1824 the portrait came into the possession of his friend Hobhouse, who was also his executor. Hobhouse's daughter Charlotte Dorchester bequeathed the painting to King ...

“Who would write, who had anything better to do?” Byron once said.Credit...Musée Fabre/Hulton Fine Art Collection, via Getty Images Supported by By Benjamin Markovits Benjamin Markovits is ...