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Percy Bysshe Shelley

(1792-1822), Poet

Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter associated with 9 portraits
The poet and novelist Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in individual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley's first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a pastoral elegy inspired by Keats's death in 1821. Returning from visiting Byron and Leigh Hunt in Pisa, he was drowned in a storm at sea.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Amelia Curran - NPG 1234

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Amelia Curran
oil on canvas, 1819
On display in Room 17 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1234

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint, after  Amelia Curran, and  Edward Ellerker Williams - NPG 1271

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Alfred Clint, after Amelia Curran, and Edward Ellerker Williams
oil on canvas, circa 1829, based on a work of 1819
NPG 1271

Percy Bysshe Shelley, attributed to Edward William Wyon, after  Marianne Leigh Hunt - NPG 2683

Percy Bysshe Shelley

attributed to Edward William Wyon, after Marianne Leigh Hunt
plaster cast of medallion, based on a work of circa 1836
NPG 2683

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Unknown artist - NPG D21669

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Unknown artist
ink and wash, early 19th century
NPG D21669

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by William Holl Sr, or by  William Holl Jr, after  Amelia Curran - NPG D6851

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by William Holl Sr, or by William Holl Jr, after Amelia Curran
stipple and line engraving, (1819)
NPG D6851

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by William Finden, published by  Black & Armstrong, after  Amelia Curran - NPG D14892

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by William Finden, published by Black & Armstrong, after Amelia Curran
stipple and line engraving, (1819)
NPG D14892

Mary Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley, by George J. Stodart, after a monument by  Henry Weekes - NPG D5956

Mary Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley

by George J. Stodart, after a monument by Henry Weekes
stipple engraving, (1853)
NPG D5956

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by George J. Stodart, after  Antoine Philippe, duc de Montpensier - NPG D5955

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by George J. Stodart, after Antoine Philippe, duc de Montpensier
stipple engraving, published 1879
NPG D5955

Percy Bysshe Shelley, issued by Sarony & Co, after  Amelia Curran - NPG D48943

Percy Bysshe Shelley

issued by Sarony & Co, after Amelia Curran
gravure cigarette card, 1925 (1819)
NPG D48943

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Noelle

13 February 2019, 02:08

Yes I heard Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein after seeing how her friends and Shelly turned into monsters after taking laudanum during their stay