George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

1 portrait

after Richard Westall
oil on canvas, (1813)
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
Purchased, 1896
Primary Collection
NPG 1047

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), Poet. Sitter in 32 portraits.

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Richard Westall (1765-1836), History painter. Artist associated with 13 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.

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A legend in his own lifetime throughout Europe, Byron, who was club-footed, was famous for his good looks and his brilliant, reckless personality. A poet of travel and romance, and a scintillating satirist, he lived abroad from 1816 in self-imposed exile and died of fever at Missolonghi where he had joined the Greeks in their fight against Turkish rule.