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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 ...
Wallis is best remembered for his first great success, The Death of Chatterton, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. The painting depicted the impoverished late 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, who poisoned himself in despair at the age of seventeen, and was considered a Romantic hero for many young and struggling artists in Wallis's day.
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.
It would be tempting to link Chatterton to David’s picture given Wallis’s radical political beliefs (Hickox) and the fact that he had earlier studied in France for a period at Gleyre’s atelier. An interesting possible link comes from another fact, that Wallis may have been familiar with Carlyle’s History of The French Revolution. A ...
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Theodor von Holst. 1842. ‘Chatterton‘, Henry Wallis, 1856 on display at Tate Britain.
