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
attributed to James Spedding
pencil, circa 1831
NPG 3940
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Samuel Laurence, and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1840
On display in Room 24 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2460
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Thomas Woolner
plaster cast of medallion, 1856
NPG 3847
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Mary Grant, after Thomas Woolner
marble bust, 1893 (1857)
NPG 947
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Mudd
albumen print, 1861
NPG P34
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by George Frederic Watts
oil on canvas, circa 1863-1864
On display in the Watts Hall of Fame at Bodelwyddan Castle
NPG 1015
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by M. Arnault, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
chalk, (1864)
NPG 970
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1865
NPG P285
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG P284
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1869
NPG P9
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1869
NPG P124
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Thomas Woolner
plaster cast of bust, 1873
NPG 1667
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Henry Margetson, after a photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud
watercolour, 1891 (1882)
NPG 4343
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Francis John Williamson
plaster cast of bust, 1893
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1178
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Oscar Gustave Rejlander
albumen print, early 1860s
NPG x12998
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by William Jeffrey
albumen print on card mount, 1860s
NPG x13249
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Oscar Gustave Rejlander
albumen print, early 1860s
NPG x7950
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
after James Mudd
albumen carte-de-visite, (1861)
NPG Ax18237
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by James Mudd
albumen print, 1861
NPG x8005
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
after James Mudd
woodburytype, 1870s (1861)
NPG Ax7608
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