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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.
Mr. Wallis’s Chatterton, lying dead in his garret as dawn-light spreads through the narrow window, and stretches along the roofs of the mighty London which he has found all too small to exist in, is a highminded work, thoroughly felt, thought, and executed. The poison-bottle lies on the floor; the dead hand clutches a fragment of the manuscripts which the poet is torn up and scattered to ...
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 ...
Within a few months of Wallis's success at the Royal Academy with his painting of Chatterton, Mary Ellen had left Meredith for Wallis; they toured Wales and went to Capri, and at the beginning of 1858 Mary Ellen bore Wallis's son. The story ends in tragedy. On their return to London, Wallis abandoned her, Meredith seized his son Arthur from her ...
Mar 18, 2020 · Email. The Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis (1830–1916) received much critical acclaim during his own lifetime, yet he remains comparatively little known today. From 1854 to 1877 he exhibited at the Royal Academy almost every year, before becoming a leading member of the Old Water-Colour Society, where some of his works were praised for ...
Tag this. 'Chatterton' is Wallis's earliest and most famous work. The picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, accompanied by the following quotation from Marlowe: 'Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough'. Ruskin described the work in his Academy ...
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The Bride. Theodor von Holst. 1842. ‘Chatterton‘, Henry Wallis, 1856 on display at Tate Britain.
