Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats.
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Joseph Severn (self-portrait)
John Keats by Severn 1819
Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound (1845)
Edward John Trelawny, by Severn
Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath, 1845
Severn drawn by his daughter Mary
Keats and Severn graves at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Severn's tombstone is on the right. Severn's stele is ornamented with a palette in low relief, and Keats' with a lyre.In their orbit 1
Artists born in the 1790s 6
About this person
Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1793 to 1879 · aged 85
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