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JOSEPH SEVERN (1793-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:SEVERN (1793-1879)  , See also:English portrait. and subject painter, was See also:born at Hoxton on the 7th of See also:December 1793, his See also:father, a musician, coming of an old See also:Gloucestershire See also:family . During his earlier years he practised See also:portraiture as a miniaturist; and, having studied in the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy, in 1818 he gained the See also:gold See also:medal for his " Una and the Red See also:Cross See also:Knight in the See also:Cave of Despair." In 1819 he exhibited at the Academy his " Hermia and See also:Helena." He was an intimate friend of See also:Keats the poet, whom he accompanied to See also:Italy in 182o and nursed till his See also:death in 1821 . His picture of "The Death of See also:Alcibiades " then obtained for him an Academy travelling studentship, and he returned to See also:Rome, where he lived till 1841, marrying in 1828 the daughter of See also:Lord See also:Montgomerie, a See also:ward of See also:Lady Westmoreland, one of his See also:chief patrons, and mingling in the congenial See also:art circles of the See also:city . In 1861, after living in See also:England for nineteen years, mainly for the See also:education of his See also:children, he was appointed See also:British See also:consul at Rome, a See also:post which he held till 1872, and during a See also:great See also:part of the See also:time he also acted as See also:Italian consul . His most remarkable See also:work is the " Spectre See also:Ship" from the See also:Ancient Mariner . He painted ", Cordelia watching by the See also:Bed of See also:Lear," the " See also:Roman See also:Beggar," " Ariel," " The See also:Fountain," and " See also:Rienzi," executed a large See also:altar-piece for the See also:church of St See also:Paul at Rome, and produced many portraits, including one of See also:Baron See also:Bunsen and several of Keats . He died at Rome on. the 3rd of See also:August 1879 . He had six children, ofwhom See also:Walter, See also:Arthur and See also:Ann (wife of See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Newton) were well-known artists . See the See also:Life and Letters, by See also:William See also:Sharp (1892) .

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