Thomas Chatterton was an English poet who committed 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
Pile Street School, depicted 1897
The wall at the right of the house in Phippen street where Chatterton was raised is that of the c. 1739 school where Chatterton's father was the master.
Henry Wallis was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector. He is best known for his 1856 painting The Death of Chatterton.
The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born (1853)
Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower (1856)