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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 of 10 portraits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Peter Vandyke
oil on canvas, 1795
22 in. x 18 in. (559 mm x 457 mm)
Purchased, 1865
Primary Collection
NPG 192

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Poet. Sitter in 10 portraits.

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Peter Vandyke (1729-1799), Painter. Artist associated with 3 portraits.

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'He is a wonderful man,' wrote Dorothy Wordsworth, 'His eye is large and full … such an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the fullest expression; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind.' This portrait was painted for Joseph Cottle who published Coleridge's first volume of poems in 1796.

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NPG 193: Robert Southey (companion portrait)

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Holmes, Richard, Insights: The Romantic Poets and Their Circle, 2005, p. 46
Holmes, Richard; Crane, David; Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2002, p. 31
Ribeiro, Aileen, The Gallery of Fashion, 2000, p. 152
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 135
Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 118
Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantic Icons, 1999, p. 61