Frederick George Byron Frederick George Byron Frederick George Byron (1764 – 1792), was an English amateur artist and caricaturist, and an uncle of the poet the 6th Lord Byron. Many of his works are unsigned and have frequently been attributed to other artists; in particular some of his works closely resemble those of Thomas Rowlandson. He made numerous plates for William Holland, between 1788-91, see the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Byron exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1791. His large plates of France from 1790
Lord Byron that shocked the British public. She had spurned the attention of the poet on their first meeting, subsequently giving Byron what became his lasting epitaph when she famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". This did not prevent her from pursuing him. Byron eventually broke off the relationship, and moved swiftly on to others (such as that with Lady Oxford), but Lamb never entirely recovered, pursuing him even after he tired of her. She was emotionally disturbed, and lost so much weight that Byron sarcastically commented to her mother-in-law, his friend Lady Melbourne, that he was "haunted