Robert Southey
1 portrait
Robert Southey
by Peter Vandyke
oil on canvas, 1795
21 1/2 in. x 17 1/2 in. (546 mm x 445 mm)
Purchased, 1865
Primary Collection
NPG 193
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This portrait was painted for Joseph Cottle, the Bristol bookseller who published Southey's Joan of Arc (1796). Even Southey's long hair was a sign of youthful dissent: he had refused to have his 'mane shorn' by his college barber.
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- Holmes, Richard, Insights: The Romantic Poets and Their Circle, 2005, p. 50
- Holmes, Richard; Crane, David; Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2002, p. 29
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 577
- Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 469
- Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen, Romantic Icons, 1999, p. 63
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