First published in 2005. 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 Sulleyrsquo;s Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portraitrsquo;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.
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