#Edward Williams

[burningvelvet]

what are the pro hunt articles on the shelley/hunt portrait you were talking about on oct 6? also whats your opinion on the portrait now?

Thanks for the ask! Long post ahead.

Newman Ivey White's 1940 Shelley biography is what started the pro-Hunt theory, but it was also defended by Estill Curtis Pennington in the works "William Edward West, 1788-1857 Kentucky Painter" and “Painting Lord Byron: An Account by William Edward West" — these are probably what I was referring to. In some works on Byron portraiture I believe the Shelley/Hunt thing is sometimes mentioned in passing but I don't remember exact works. I've read too much about LB & his public image.

Overall, I would like to believe it's Shelley, but I'm still waiting for Stauffer's new work to come out before I'm 100% convinced bc I don't want to get my hopes up. I have also thought maybe it could've been someone else, ie Shelley's friend Edward Williams — there's a portrait of Williams by George Clint which looks VERY similar to this mystery portrait, but it was done posthumously, I believe at the bequest of his wife Jane's memory, more than a decade after his death — and it doesn't look much like any of the other portraits of Williams either. So the similarity could be a coincidence.

If West was telling the truth when he said he met Shelley, etc., (not much reason to doubt him, but White and Pennington do) then it would make sense for it to be of Shelley, but since his wife Mary tried hard to acquire all the portraits of him, it is a little strange that she and the rest of the Shelley family did not acquire it or ever claim it as far as I know, and that it isn't more popular in general. This is one of the things preventing me from believing it's Shelley, although I'm 90% convinced, especially after reading Stauffer say in one of the recent articles that gray paint pigments were used on the hair but are only discernible up close (Shelley was said to be going gray early, despite his still youthful appearance).

A friend of mine said something about not understanding what the big deal was about this portrait, or why I was interested in it. In a few words I tried telling him about the importance (in general, but especially for famous historical figures, and especially the Romantic poets) of portraiture, artwork, public representation, image, style, persona, material culture, and how Shelley and Byron's portrait representations have always been a particularly big deal for their legacies, especially in the Victorian era where literary collectors turned Byronalia and Shelleyana into saint-like relics and their images were fetishized.

But I don't know. I think the vast majority of people don't really care about the historical legacies of famous dead writers, let alone their portraits. But I do. If I love a writer or historical figure, of course I want to know what they looked like. My overactive imagination is dying to have as accurate a conception of them as possible.

I'd like to think it is Shelley since we have so few representations of him and they're all vastly different, and this one presents him in the most flattering and artful light, in a way that we can easily imagine Mary having ran off with him, whereas the famous Curran portrait was said by all to not look anything like him (although I don't think it's super unflattering), and the portrait work of Williams, Curran, and Marianne Hunt just aren't as skillful as that of West. 

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"They say it's not just the child who is born, a new mother is born too--"

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[oldpaintings]

A Snow Storm by William Edward Stott (English, 1855–1918)

[fullmetalharmony]

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[diioonysus]

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[weirdlookindog]

Edward Henry Corbould (1815–1905) - Lord Ullin’s Daughter

illustration from Samuel Carter Hall's 'The Book of British Ballads', 1842

engraved by Samuel Williams

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[whibleysims]

"I saw the signs, but I guess I thought she would pull through anyway," Dr. Irene Hill said. "I'm so sorry, Carl -- I don't know what to say, I don't know how you could ever forgive me."

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Davechella #2: Tom Hartnell (+ some news!)

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