Robert Browning Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1855 October
Robert Browning <artist/> <location/> <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>A great admirer of Browning's poetry (see DGR's sonnet <xref doc="a.9-1849.raw"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">On Browning's Sordello</hi> ), DGR was finally introduced to him in 1853 but their friendship did not begin to flourish until September 1855, from the time of the famous evening (27 September) at the Browning's when Tennyson read from his new poem <hi rend="i">Maud</hi> . DGR made several sketches of the event and gave the first of these to the Brownings.

This portrait was begun in London and completed in Paris, where DGR visited the Brownings in November 1855.

See Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 55. 50-53, 58 for DGR's letters to and about the Brownings.

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Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 158 (no. 275). Treuherz, Prettejohn, and Becker, <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 151.

Fitzwilliam Museum watercolour Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Robert Browning DGR 1855 October October 1855 watercolour 4 Robert Browning [print] DGR 1896 Charcoal, brown and cream photoprint, mounted on cream/beige board. 1 Robert Browning [print] DGR 1896 Brown, charcoal and cream photoprint, mounted on beige/cream board. 1