Regency Portraits Catalogue
George Crabbe (1754-1832), Poet
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Poet.
'As like Parson Adams as twelve to a dozen' (Thurlow).
‘… Mr Lockhart … recently favoured me with the following letter ... “His noble forehead, his bright beaming eye, without anything of old age about it - though he was then, I presume, above seventy; his sweet, and I would say, innocent smile, and the calm mellow tones of his voice, are all reproduced the moment I open any page of his poetry"’ (Life of Crabbe by his son).
'As like Parson Adams as twelve to a dozen' (Thurlow).
‘… Mr Lockhart … recently favoured me with the following letter ... “His noble forehead, his bright beaming eye, without anything of old age about it - though he was then, I presume, above seventy; his sweet, and I would say, innocent smile, and the calm mellow tones of his voice, are all reproduced the moment I open any page of his poetry"’ (Life of Crabbe by his son).
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Crabbe 1834George Crabbe, Life of George Crabbe by his Son, 1834 and ed. 1947; a copy annotated by Edward Fitzgerald was used by Canon Alfred Ainger for his Crabbe, 1903.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, 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.