Title

'The Death of Chatterton', 1856 (1900). Artist: Unknown

Caption

'The Death of Chatterton', 1856 (1900). This was the first great success of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. It depicts Thomas Chatterton, an 18th century poet who committed suicide aged just seventeen and was a romantic hero to struggling young artists in the mid 19th century. The model used for the painting was the novelist and poet George Meredith.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C50_174

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,5Mb) / 17,3in x 11,2in / 5203 x 3356 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people male boy boys man men arts painting country body art guy British English bed bedroom room dead despair death location Victorian century Britain literature concept suicide TRAGEDY B&W corpse MONOCHROME tragic 19th century poetry black & white black and white B W poet 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector artistic school bedchamber deathbed Pre-Raphaelite the body George Unknown Thomas Henry Chatterton Henry Wallis;Wallis Meredith Thomas Chatterton George Meredith George Meredith