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 attention of sympathetic nations, but their increasing active participation...Despite the critics, Byron is primarily remembered with admiration as a poet of genius, with something approaching veneration as a symbol of high ideals, and with great affection as a man: for his courage and his ironic slant on life, for his generosity to the grandest of causes and to the humblest of individuals, for the constant interplay of judgment and sympathy. In Greece he is still revered as no other foreigner, and as very few Greeks are, and like a Homeric hero he is accorded an honorific standard epithet, "megalos kai