Summary
On April 4, 1999, Santa Fean John Clubbe came across a portrait of the English Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, in a New York gallery. It was one he'd never seen before -- and the author, academic, and longtime co-president of the International Byron Society was sure he'd seen them all.
"My whole body stopped," recalled Clubbe. "I thought, 'What is this?'" His partner, Joan Blythe, a specialist in the life and work of John Milton, said, "I walked into the room and there it was. I remember yelling, 'John, it's Byron!'"See the full content of this document
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Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Portray
The pose recalled Richard Westall's famous 1813 portrait: Byron facing left in profile, chin in hand, with thick, dark hair and bare, handsome throat deftly portrayed. But it was by American painter Thomas Sully, whose sitters included Queen Victoria, actress- abolitionist Frances Anne ("Fanny") Kemble, and banker-politician Nichola...
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