Miniature of George Keats

George Keats was two years Keats’s junior. In June 1818, after several unsuccessful attempts to start a career, he married and emigrated to America. ‘My brother George has ever been more than a brother to me,’ Keats wrote several weeks later, ‘he has been my greatest friend.’ Apart from a brief visit at the beginning of 1820, George never returned to England. After early difficulties in Kentucky he moved to Louisville, where he eventually became a wealthy and respected citizen. He died of tuberculosis in 1841, aged forty-four.

Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879 (artist)

1818

watercolor

portraits
miniatures (paintings)
aquarelle (technique)

Keats, George, 1797-1841

Gift of J Gilmer Speed, grandson of George Keats.

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Severn Room

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