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 ...

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 ...

In 1817 Lord Byron, the romantic poet ... Bowood House: To see the portrait by Thomas Phillips of Byron wearing his ‘Albanian’ costume, you would have to travel to the British Ambassador ...

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 ...

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 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 ...