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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.
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.
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. One of several works with strong literary associations that Wallis painted early in his career, finishing the painting in 1855 and exhibited ...
Apr 8, 2021 · Produced at the age of just 26, his defining work was the catalyst for a second tragedy which culminated in another premature death. Wallis used a writer friend, George Meredith (1828–1909), as a model for Thomas Chatterton – although, at 27, Meredith was a decade older than the precocious poet.
The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born. Henry Wallis. 1853. On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art.
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 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.
