Robert Browning
(1812-1889), Poet; husband of Elizabeth Barrett BrowningEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 53 portraits
Poet; published poems and plays from 1832; married Elizabeth Barrett, 1846; lived mostly in Italy until her death, 1861; published The Ring and the Book, 1868-9, Balaustion's Adventure, 1871, and Dramatic Idylls, 1879-80; one of the great poets of the nineteenth-century, pre-eminent for his intellectuality, and for his use of dramatic psychological monologues.
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x4826
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x12535
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print on cream card mount, August 1889
NPG x1501
Various writers, historians and philanthropists
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139908
after Field Talfourd
collotype, (1859)
NPG D32236
Robert Browning (Men of the Day. No. 116.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 20 November 1875
NPG D43719
after Sir William Blake Richmond
collotype, (1888)
NPG D32237
by John C. Murdoch, after Elliott & Fry
carbon carte-de-visite, 1880-1884
NPG x197492
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG x134719
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG x35373
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG x4828
by Elliott & Fry, after Herbert Rose Barraud
half-plate negative, 1888
NPG x82029
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