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William Brodie, 1815–1881, British, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 1857
- Title:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
- Former Title(s):
Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate--Parian marble [1857, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1857
- Medium:
- Marble
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 31 1/2 × 15 × 10 inches (80 × 38.1 × 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed by chisel on supporting column on back of bust: "Wm. BRODIE R. S. A."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.29
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- man | marble | portrait
- Associated People:
- Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson (1809–1892), poet
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1518
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Tennyson (1809–1892) was the most successful Victorian poet and was named Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria in 1850, following the death of William Wordsworth. His fame and popularity in the mid-nineteenth century rested in large part on his Arthurian poems, such as “The Lady of Shalott,” which became a popular subject among visual artists of the period (Walter Crane’s painting of the dying Lady of Shalott is shown nearby). This heroic bust was made by the Scottish sculptor William Brodie, who worked in Edinburgh and specialized in portrait busts. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1857. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Angus Trumble, The Marble Bust, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2004, no. 1, V 1304 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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