Portrait profile of Lord Byron, aged 18, taken at Southwell.
c.1806-7.7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (18.5 x 11 cm). Inscribed "Byron" (upper right) and "Profile of Ld. Byron when abt. 18 / taken at Southwell." (lower margin). Another small label reads "The Original Byron Portrait" (lower left), unknown collector's mark (upper left and lower right.) The portrait is mounted to a page inscribed "W.S. Leacroft, Esq./ c.1806-7. Southall" (lower right) and again in another hand "Leacroft Esq. Southwell" (verso). This portrait was formerly paired with an 1847 letter written by W. S. Leacroft in which he wrote "there is not the least doubt of it being a genuine outline of his face at the time it is dated … for I was present at the time a late brother of mine took several … " (letter presumed lost). Byron met the Leacrofts while living at Southwell with his mother between 1804 and 1806. He took such an interest in Julia Leacroft that her family believed he would marry her, but when his true intention of not marrying her was revealed he nearly had to fight a duel with her brother, Captain John Leacroft, the possible artist. Provenance sale Sotheby's London, December 1984, lot 96. Literature: Leslie A. Marchand, Byron's Letters and Journal's, pp. 51 and 104-6.
Portrait profile of Lord Byron, aged 18, taken at Southwell.
c.1806-7.7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (18.5 x 11 cm). Inscribed "Byron" (upper right) and "Profile of Ld. Byron when abt. 18 / taken at Southwell." (lower margin). Another small label reads "The Original Byron Portrait" (lower left), unknown collector's mark (upper left and lower right.) The portrait is mounted to a page inscribed "W.S. Leacroft, Esq./ c.1806-7. Southall" (lower right) and again in another hand "Leacroft Esq. Southwell" (verso). This portrait was formerly paired with an 1847 letter written by W. S. Leacroft in which he wrote "there is not the least doubt of it being a genuine outline of his face at the time it is dated … for I was present at the time a late brother of mine took several … " (letter presumed lost). Byron met the Leacrofts while living at Southwell with his mother between 1804 and 1806. He took such an interest in Julia Leacroft that her family believed he would marry her, but when his true intention of not marrying her was revealed he nearly had to fight a duel with her brother, Captain John Leacroft, the possible artist. Provenance sale Sotheby's London, December 1984, lot 96. Literature: Leslie A. Marchand, Byron's Letters and Journal's, pp. 51 and 104-6.
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