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 Harry Edwin
silhouette, circa 1887-1895
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Sir Francis Job ('Frank') Short, after George Frederic Watts
mezzotint, 1903 (1859)
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Jeffrey
albumen print, 1862 or 1865
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
photogravure, 1865
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, May 1865
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x20687
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x20688
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x20689
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x26791
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
photogravure, 1866
NPG Ax29132
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
carbon print, 1867
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by J.J. Waddington Ltd, after Julia Margaret Cameron
photogravure, (1869)
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Herbert Rose Barraud
albumen cabinet card, Autum 1882
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Walker & Boutall, after Herbert Rose Barraud
photogravure, (1882)
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
woodburytype, published 1883
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
photogravure, 1888
NPG Ax29149
by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
albumen print, 1890
NPG x7955
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Walker & Boutall, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall
photogravure
NPG x26797
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Stephenson, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, Scott & Co, after George Frederic Watts
line engraving, published 1 February 1862
NPG D40522
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