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A painting of the poet Lord Byron is hanging in the church where he was ... Dr Carl Thompson, from Nottingham Trent University, said the portrait of Byron in Albanian dress was symbolic. He said: "In ...
A Byron scholar for 40 years, he knew all the major portraits of the poet but Walking into the Owen Gallery on New York's 75th Street in April 1999, John Clubbe saw a gorgeous portrait of Lord ...
Their plan was to investigate the condition of Lord Byron in his coffin in the ... whether it was posing in colourful Albanian costume for a portrait, or donning scarlet military uniform to ...
Byron was in the van of those poets who came to be known as “Romantics,” and his life had something of the turbulence of a fairy tale. The future Lord Byron was born in 1788 to a family that could ...
The National Portrait Gallery has found a perfect subject for an exhibition in Lord Byron; his image so fascinated the public that, even in his day, the term Byronic was used to describe a lonely ...
The British poet Lord Byron is well-known for his flamboyance. He had love affairs with women, men and the occasional relative, and one mistress called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know" — all ...
William Sartain, after Thomas Phillips, Portrait of Byron, 1868, Mezzotint, The Print Collection of the New York Public Library. “Byron: A Life in Motion,” at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A.