Joseph Severn
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Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection o
Joseph Severn (self-portrait)
John Keats by Severn 1819
Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound (1845)
Edward John Trelawny, by Severn
John Keats
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John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tu
Joseph Severn
…Joseph Severn (7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important…
Posthumous portrait by William Hilton, c. 1822
Life mask of Keats by Benjamin Haydon, 1816
Wentworth Place, now the Keats House museum (left), Ten Keats Grove (right), Hampstead Heath, London
An ambrotype of Fanny Brawne taken circa 1850 (photograph on glass)