Article: Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture.(Book review)

John Clubbe Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture

(Ashgate, 2005) xxi + 343 $95.00.

John Clubbe's Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture is a labor of love--and the love that catalyzed this intricate but beautifully organized book-length essay was of the at-first-sight variety. "I was struck as if by a flaming arrow," writes Clubbe of the moment on April 4, 1999, when, visiting the Owen Gallery in New York, he first encountered and immediately recognized "a large, utterly gorgeous portrait of Lord Byron"--a likeness painted by Thomas Sully, the most eminent American portrait artist of his generation, but completely unknown in the world of Byron ...

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