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Charles Lamb (copy after an original of 1826)

Henry Hoppner Meyer (1782–1847) (copy after)

National Portrait Gallery, London

Charles Lamb

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Lamb was one of the great essayists and critics of the early nineteenth century. A lifelong friend of Coleridge and a familiar figure in Romantic circles, Lamb worked and spent much of his life as a clerk at East India House from 1792 to 1825. His first success was the collection of prose adaptations for children, Tales from Shakespeare (1807), written with his sister Mary. Thanks to an introduction by Benjamin Robert Haydon, he began to contribute to the London Magazine in 1820. Using the pen-name 'Elia', Lamb wrote on various historical and topical subjects with nostalgia, warmth and humorous intelligence and his collected Essays of Elia (1823) was a huge success.

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Title

Charles Lamb

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 33 x W 26.7 cm

Accession number

1312

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1902

Work type

Painting

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