Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Joseph Severn (1793-1879), Painter and Civil Servant
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
A painting by himself of 1876 is reproduced S. Birkenhead, Illustrious Friends (1965), facing p 205, and Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin, XXI (1970), facing 40; a drawing by S. Kirkup of 1822 is reproduced C. W. Sharp, Life and Letters of Joseph Severn (1892), frontispiece, and S. Birkenhead, frontispiece; an engraving, after a portrait of c.1820 (probably a miniature), is reproduced C. W. Sharpe, facing p 248; there is a reproduction (apparently from a book) after a miniature of similar date (example in NPG); a detail from a group photograph of c.1872 is reproduced John Keats: Letters of Joseph Severn to H. Buxton Forman (privately printed, Oxford, 1933), frontispiece.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.