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The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis, Birmingham version. The Death of Chatterton is an oil painting on canvas, by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis (1830–1916), now in Tate Britain, London. Two smaller versions, sketches or replicas, are possessed by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
The Death of Chatterton. Henry Wallis. 1856. Oil on canvas, 24 1/2 x 36 3/4 inches Collection: Tate Britain, museum acquisition no. T01685. The Death of Chatterton or Chatterton (which is the title under which the painting was first exhibited) is Wallis’s best-known picture and one of the masterpieces of the first wave of Pre-Raphaelitism.
A tragic suicide. Chatterton by Henry Wallis is an example of the Victorian approach to history painting. The picture illustrates the suicide of the poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770). Despairing over his lack of literary success, the young poet tore up his manuscripts and took a lethal dose of arsenic. Henry Wallis, Chatterton, 1856, oil on ...
The Death of Chatterton. The Death of Chatterton is an oil painting on canvas, by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis (1830 - 1916), now in Tate Britain, London. Two smaller versions, sketches or replicas, are possessed by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
The Bride. Theodor von Holst. 1842. ‘Chatterton‘, Henry Wallis, 1856 on display at Tate Britain.
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Object: Death of Chatterton Description The young poet in his garret, lying on a bed under the window, one arm hanging down clutching a ball of paper, with a chest full of scraps of paper beside his head and the empty poison bottle on the floor: after Henry Wallis: artist's proof.
