Robert Browning
(1812-1889), Poet; husband of Elizabeth Barrett BrowningEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 53 portraits
Poet; published poems and plays from 1832; married Elizabeth Barrett, 1846; lived mostly in Italy until her death, 1861; published The Ring and the Book, 1868-9, Balaustion's Adventure, 1871, and Dramatic Idylls, 1879-80; one of the great poets of the nineteenth-century, pre-eminent for his intellectuality, and for his use of dramatic psychological monologues.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning
by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
bronze cast of clasped hands, 1853
NPG 3165
by Michele Gordigiani
oil on canvas, 1858
NPG 1898
by Field Talfourd
chalk, 1859
NPG 1269
by Fratelli D'Alessandri
albumen carte-de-visite, March 1860
NPG P1093
by George Frederic Watts
oil on canvas, 1866
NPG 1001
by (Wilhelm Augustus) Rudolf Lehmann
oil on canvas, 1884
NPG 839
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
NPG P147
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x4823
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x4824
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax17799
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax39903
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1860s
NPG Ax21893
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1860s
NPG Ax27734
by Ernest Edwards
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1863
NPG Ax7521
by Ernest Edwards, published by Lovell Reeve & Co
albumen print, published 1863
NPG Ax13835
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864-1865
NPG x197080
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864-1865
NPG x197493
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864-1865
NPG Ax5076
by William Jeffrey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x74634
by William Jeffrey
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x4821
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x18064
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1865)
NPG Ax29134
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1880s
NPG x193639
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1880-1884
NPG x197079
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1880-1884
NPG x4818
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1880
NPG x4822
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1880-1884
NPG Ax18223
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1880-1884
NPG x9067
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG x4825
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG Ax17637
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1884
NPG x129582
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x76510
by Alexander Bassano
photogravure reproduction of a photograph, circa 1885
NPG Ax29926
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG Ax5418
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
sepia carbon print on blue card mount, published 1888
NPG x5176
Robert Browning; Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning
by Constance Barclay
halftone reproduction, 14 November 1889
NPG x200112
by William Henry Grove
platinum print, 1889
NPG x4820
by William Henry Grove
platinum print, 1889
NPG x4819
by William Henry Grove, published by Annan and Swan
photogravure mounted on white paper, 1889
NPG x4827
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
NPG x19812
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x4826
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x12535
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print on cream card mount, August 1889
NPG x1501
Various writers, historians and philanthropists
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139908
after Field Talfourd
collotype, (1859)
NPG D32236
Robert Browning (Men of the Day. No. 116.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 20 November 1875
NPG D43719
after Sir William Blake Richmond
collotype, (1888)
NPG D32237
by John C. Murdoch, after Elliott & Fry
carbon carte-de-visite, 1880-1884
NPG x197492
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG x134719
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG x35373
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG x4828
by Elliott & Fry, after Herbert Rose Barraud
half-plate negative, 1888
NPG x82029
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