Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822), PoetRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 9 portraits
The poet and novelist Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in individual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley's first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a pastoral elegy inspired by Keats's death in 1821. Returning from visiting Byron and Leigh Hunt in Pisa, he was drowned in a storm at sea.
by Alfred Clint, after Amelia Curran, and Edward Ellerker Williams
oil on canvas, circa 1829, based on a work of 1819
NPG 1271
attributed to Edward William Wyon, after Marianne Leigh Hunt
plaster cast of medallion, based on a work of circa 1836
NPG 2683
by Unknown artist
ink and wash, early 19th century
NPG D21669
by William Holl Sr, or by William Holl Jr, after Amelia Curran
stipple and line engraving, (1819)
NPG D6851
by William Finden, published by Black & Armstrong, after Amelia Curran
stipple and line engraving, (1819)
NPG D14892
Mary Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley
by George J. Stodart, after a monument by Henry Weekes
stipple engraving, (1853)
NPG D5956
by George J. Stodart, after Antoine Philippe, duc de Montpensier
stipple engraving, published 1879
NPG D5955
issued by Sarony & Co, after Amelia Curran
gravure cigarette card, 1925 (1819)
NPG D48943
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Noelle
13 February 2019, 02:08
Yes I heard Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein after seeing how her friends and Shelly turned into monsters after taking laudanum during their stay