Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Poet laureate; 'In Memoriam' and the Arthurian poems caught the national imagination; the lyricism and psychological intensity of his early work was later modified into a more public poetry; wrote literary dramas; the only author raised to the peerage for literature.
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.