Chatterton Henry Wallis 1 Chatterton Henry Wallis 1855-1856 R.A., 1856 (no.352); Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857; Leeds, 1868 Tate Britain N01685 Sold to Augustus Egg by the artist in 1856 for 100 guineas; bequeathed by Charles Gent Clement, to the Tate Gallery in 1899 oil on canvas 622 x 933 mm HWallis 1856 The artist's name and date are inscribed in the lower right corner. Hunt, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelitism</hi> , (vol. 2) 62. George Meredith Meredith modelled for the figure of Chatterton. <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>DGR was intensely interested in the eighteenth-century poet Thomas Chatterton, who was known for composing faux-historic poems, tales, and songs, many of which were published in the <title level="per"> <hi rend="i">Middlesex Journal</hi> . In 1880, DGR wrote a sonnet in his honor.

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Hunt, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelitism</hi> , 62 (vol. 2). Prettejohn, <hi rend="i">The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites</hi> , 192-193 (no. 153). <hi rend="i">The Pre-Raphaelites</hi> , Tate 1984, 142-144 (no.75).

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. The above lines from Christopher Marlowe's c. 1590 play <hi rend="i">Doctor Faustus</hi> are inscribed on the original frame.