Regency Portraits Catalogue
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), Essayist, journalist and critic
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- Biography and References
Essayist, journalist, author of The Spirit of the Age, 1825, Conversations of James Northcote, 1826-30, etc.
'... a pale anatomy of a man ... the forehead was magnificent, the nose strong, light and elegant, the mouth greatly resembled Edmund Kean's, the eyes grey (furtive), sometimes sinister, never brilliant, the head nobly formed with a profusion of coal-black curls' (P. G. Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance, 1854, II, pp 252, 304-5).
'He did not wear his hair short till it turned grey, about the time of his visit to France and Italy in 1824-25' (W. Carew Hazlitt (grandson), Memoirs of William Hazlitt, 1867, I, p xviii).
'... a pale anatomy of a man ... the forehead was magnificent, the nose strong, light and elegant, the mouth greatly resembled Edmund Kean's, the eyes grey (furtive), sometimes sinister, never brilliant, the head nobly formed with a profusion of coal-black curls' (P. G. Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance, 1854, II, pp 252, 304-5).
'He did not wear his hair short till it turned grey, about the time of his visit to France and Italy in 1824-25' (W. Carew Hazlitt (grandson), Memoirs of William Hazlitt, 1867, I, p xviii).
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Hazlitt 1867William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt, 2 vols., 1867.
Hazlitt 1897
W. C. Hazlitt, Four Generations of a Literary Family, 2 vols., 1897.
Howe 1943
P. P. Howe, Life of William Hazlitt, 1922 revised 1943.
Landseer 1871
Thomas Landseer, Life and Works of William Bewick, 2 vols., 1871.
Maclean 1943
Catherine Maclean, Born under Saturn, 1943.
Pearson 1934
Hesketh Pearson, Fool of Love, 1934.
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.