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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) (copy after an original of 1819 by Amelia Curran and Edward Ellerker Williams)

Alfred Clint (1807–1883)

National Portrait Gallery, London

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

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The poet and novelist Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in individual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley's first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a pastoral elegy inspired by Keats's death in 1821. Returning from visiting Byron and Leigh Hunt in Pisa, he was drowned in a storm at sea.

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Title

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

Date

c.1829

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 59.7 x W 49.5 cm

Accession number

1271

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1900

Work type

Painting

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Alfred Clint

1807–1883

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