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| Meredith Frampton Portrait of Sir Charles Grant Robertson 1941 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Alberto de Rohden Portrait of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf ca. 1890 oil on canvas Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery |
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| William Bell Scott Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne 1860 oil on canvas Balliol College, University of Oxford |
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| Richard Rothwell Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ca. 1840-43 oil on panel Bodleian Library, University of Oxford |
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| Thomas Lawrence Portrait of Richard Payne Knight 1794 oil on canvas Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
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| Tilly Kettle Portrait of Anna Seward (the Swan of Lichfield) 1762 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
On the fleet streams the Sun, that late arose,
In amber radiance plays, the tall young grass
No foot hath bruised; clear morning, as I pass,
Breathes the pure gale that on the blossom blows,
And, as with gold yon green hill's summit glows,
The lake inlays the vale with molten glass.
Now is the year's soft youth, yet me, alas,
Cheers not as it was wont; impending woes
Weigh on my heart; the joys that once were mine
Spring leads not back, and those that yet remain
Fade while she blooms. Each hour more lovely shine
Her crystal beams, and feed her floral train,
But ah with pale and waning fires decline
Those eyes whose light my filial hopes sustain.
– Anna Seward (1799)
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| Godfrey Kneller Portrait of John Dryden 1697 oil on canvas Trinity College, University of Cambridge |
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| John Michael Wright Portrait of Thomas Hobbes ca. 1669-70 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| attributed to Pieter Borsseler Portrait of Samuel Butler ca. 1665 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| William Sheppard Portrait of Thomas Killigrew 1650 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| William Dobson Portrait of Two Court Poets, John Taylor and John Denham 1643 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| John de Critz the Elder Posthumous Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney ca. 1620 oil on panel Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester |
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| John Vanderbank Portrait of Francis Bacon ca. 1731 (after anonymous original of ca. 1618) oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist The Cobbe Portrait of William Shakespeare ca. 1610 oil on panel National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| George Romney The Infant Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions ca. 1785 oil on panel Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |