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The National portrait gallery (1901)

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 154

An illustration from The National portrait gallery, 1901, leaf 154
window, the carpet, chairs, are all portraits, even to the mezzotinto portrait of Shakespeare, given him by his old landlady in the Isle of Wight.On the morning of my visit to Hampstead (1819) I found him sitting with the two chairs, as I have painted him. After this timehe lost his cheerfulness,… … 140 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. WILLIAM GODWIN. 1756-1836. Painted by James Northcote, R.A. Political writer. He obtained much notoriety by his PoliticalJustice, in which the principles of the French Revolution wereadvocated, and by a philosophical novel entitled Caleb Williams.He married the…

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