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Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
Contributor(s): Clubbe, John (Author)
ISBN: 1138659673     ISBN-13: 9781138659674
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $128.70  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - General
- History
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 759.13
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Byron
Physical Information: 371 pages
 
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First published in 2005. Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sulley's Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.