Thomas Chatterton
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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.
Horace Walpole
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
Thomas Chatterton
…work by the age of 11. He was able to pass off his work as that of a fictional 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, though he was denounced by Horace Walpole. At 17, he sought outlets for his political writings in London, having impressed the Lord Mayor, William Beckford, and the leader John Wilkes, but his…
Portrait of Horace Walpole by Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Walpole by Rosalba Carriera, c. 1741.
Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham
Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1755.