Joseph Severn

1793 — 1879

British artist (1793-1879)

Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.

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A Scene from the Tempest, Prospero and Ariel

Caulking the Schooner, Falmouth Harbour

Odalisque

The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon

John Keats

Italian female peasant

Italian female peasant

The brigand’s family

Mother and Child with a Bird

The deserted village

A Genoese Gentleman (after Anthony van Dyck)

Alessandro Giustiniani-Longo (1544–1631) (after Anthony van Dyck)

Ariel riding on a Bat

Briseis Restored to Archilles (after Peter Paul Rubens)

Doge Antonio Grimani Kneeling before Faith (after Titian)

Head of the Virgin (after Titian)

Madonna and Child (after the workshop of Sandro Botticelli)

Saint Agata Martyr (after Paolo Veronese)

Saint George and the Dragon (after Peter Paul Rubens)

Saint John the Baptist (after Titian)

Scene from Alexander Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard'

The Death of Saint Peter Martyr (after Titian)

The Miracle of the Hammer (after Jacopo Tintoretto)

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (after Jacopo Tintoretto)

The Presentation of the Virgin (after Titian)

The Visitation (after Mariotto Albertinelli)

Ariel: 'Where the bee sucks...' (from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest')

Greek Hill Shepherds Rescuing a Lamb from a Vulture

Ariel (from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest')

Charles 'Carlino' Brown (1820–1901), Aged 6

Peasants in the Roman Campagna

Italian Male peasant

Prayer to the Virgin Mary in Rome

Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath

Shelley Composing ‘Prometheus Unbound’ in the Baths of Caracalla

The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots

Burying the Bible

Isabella, or the Pot of Basil