Location

Country: Greece
City: Athens
Place: British Embassy

Thomas Phillips was born in Dudley, Warwickshire, of modest means. He took up an apprenticeship with a stained glass painter, before moving to London in 1790 to study at the Royal Academy and work in the studio of Sir Benjamin West. Phillips exhibited work at the Academy between 1794 and 1844. In 1808, he was elected a Royal Academician and, in 1825, succeeded Henry Fuseli as Professor of Painting at the Academy. Phillips was a prolific artist, as demonstrated by the 859 portraits listed in his sitters’ notebook. However, today only about 300 portraits by the artist are known to survive.

People

Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron

Places

Subjects

poet (as Subject), poetry, male portrait, 19th century costume, Baron

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873)
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)

Title

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) poet

Edition

Proof

Date

published 20 November 1824

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Purchased from John McMaster, April 1952

GAC number

1508