Miniature of Tom Keats ?

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TITLE

Miniature of Tom Keats?

SUMMARY

This portrait was found in 1926 in an antique dealer’s on the Via del Babuino, with the word ‘Keads’ written on a piece of paper loose in the frame. Keats’s biographer Robert Gittings believed that it showed Tom Keats at the age of about 16 or 17, and was by Joseph Severn. It may have belonged to Severn and been sold in Rome after his death.

NAME

Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879 (artist)

DATE

19th century

MATERIALS

crayon and watercolor

GENRE

portraits
miniatures (paintings)
aquarelle (technique)

PERSONAL NAME SUBJECT

Keats, Thomas, 1799-1818

ACQUISITION NOTE

Gift of Robert Gittings, 1950s.

LOCATION

KSH

Severn Room

ART-023


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