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Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture (Paperback)
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Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image,
have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of
all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and
around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural
significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron
known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from
1826 until this day, Thomas Sully's Byron has never before been the
subject of scholarly study. Beginning with his discovery of the
portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's
provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits,
the author discusses the work within the broad context of British
and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. Receiving most attention are Thomas Lawrence
and Sully, his American counterpart. The author gives the fullest
account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English
influences and to figures prominent in the early-nineteenth-century
American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble,
Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is
discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee
year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait.
Later chapters offer a close reading of the portrait, arguing that
Sully has given a visual interpretation truly worthy of his
celebrated, controversial, and famously handsome subject.
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