Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate
Sitter in 86 portraits
Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, Tennyson was educated in Louth before attending Trinity College, Cambridge. His early life and poetry was greatly affected by the unexpected death of his close friend and prospective brother-in-law, Arthur Hallam, to whom Tennyson dedicated his 'In Memoriam'. Some of the best-known poems include 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', 'The Lady of Shalott' and the 'Idylls of the King', while those in dialect retain the language of his Lincolnshire youth. Tennyson was Britain's longest-serving Poet Laureate, from 1850 until his death forty-two years later. A great favourite of Queen Victoria, she awarded him a barony in 1883.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
carbon print on card mount, late 1860s
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1869
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG Ax39844
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG Ax46262
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG x26794
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG x26795
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG x26796
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG x26798
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen cabinet card, circa 1870
NPG x12999
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG x12997
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870
NPG x45210
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Herbert Rose Barraud
albumen carte-de-visite, Autum 1882
NPG x26785
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1883
NPG Ax17709
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Herbert Rose Barraud
carbon print, circa 1888
NPG x26788
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Henry Duff Linton, after Edmond Morin
wood engraving, circa 1845-1855
NPG D6944
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Vincent Brooks, after a photograph by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
line engraving, (1864)
NPG D6942
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1866
NPG D6943
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Thomas Oldham Barlow, published by Fine Art Society Ltd, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
mixed-method engraving, published 1 May 1882 (1881)
NPG D34498
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Harry Edwin
silhouette, circa 1887-1895
NPG D537
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