Who painted 'The Death of Chatterton' in 1856?
The Death of Chatterton The Death of Chatterton The Death of Chatterton is an oil painting on canvas, by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, now in Tate Britain, London. Two smaller versions, sketches or replicas, are held by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. The Tate painting measures by , and was completed in 1856. The subject of the painting was the 17-year-old English early Romantic poet Thomas Chatterton, shown dead after he poisoned himself with arsenic in 1770. Chatterton was considered a Romantic hero for many young and struggling artists in Wallis's day. His method
Monody on the Death of Chatterton [...] and in the "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" which was later (1794) completely rewritten.". Monody on the Death of Chatterton "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1790 and was rewritten throughout his lifetime. The poem deals with the idea of Thomas Chatterton, a poet who committed suicide, as representing the poetic struggle. The 1790 version was part of Coleridge's collecting his juvenilia in 1793. It was first printed in 1794 as a preface to Chatterton's "Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley and Others, in the Fifteenth