Byron pencil portrait

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Byron pencil portrait

SUMMARY

This pencil sketch of Lord Byron is dated ‘Pise, July 22nd, 1822’ and is signed by the poet. The artist is unknown but the sketch bears a strong resemblance to a famous portrait of Byron by Count D’Orsay. However, D’Orsay was in Paris, not Pisa, at the time the sketch in question was completed, though it is entirely possible that D’Orsay used this sketch as a model for his own portrait of Byron the following year.

DATE

1822

ITEM

1 drawing (framed)

MATERIALS

pencil

GENRE

portraits
pencil drawings

PERSONAL NAME SUBJECT

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron, 1788-1824

LOCATION

KSH

Terrace Room

ART-039


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