Thomas Chatterton
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Thomas Chatterton was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
The Death of Chatterton, 1856, by Henry Wallis (Tate Britain, London)
Thomas Chatterton's Birthplace Home and Commemorative Plaque, Bristol
The wall at the right of the house where Chatterton was raised is that of the c. 1739 school where Chatterton's father was master. The school was demolished in 1939 to widen Pile Street into Redcliff Way, but the façade was rebuilt on the line of the former back wall.
Chatterton's Holiday Afternoon engraved by William Ridgway, after W.B. Morris, pub. 1875
Romanticism
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Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture during the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron
Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808
William Blake, The Little Girl Found, from Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794