John Opie
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John Opie was a British painter whose subjects included many prominent men and women of his day, members of the British royal family and others who were notable in the artistic and literary careers.
Self Portrait, John Opie (n.d.)
The Murder of Rizzio (1787)
The Winter's Tale, Act II, scene III, (engraving after Opie for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery)
Boadicea Haranguing the Britons, 1793
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a ra
John Opie
…Bartolozzi, John Bannister, Joseph Munden, Charles James Fox, William Betty, Edmund Burke, John Crome, James Northcote, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Girtin, Robert Southey, Samuel Parr, Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Shelley; 508 portraits in all, mostly in oil, and 252 other pictures. Opie painted the portrait of Captain…
Portrait of Robert Southey by John Opie, 1806
Wine Street, Bristol (1872)
Robert Southey, by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1832, National Portrait Gallery, London
Peter Vandyke, Portrait of Robert Southey, Aged 21, 1795