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Tuesday 21 February 2012
Henry Wallis "Chatterton" 1856 Oil on panel 68.1" x 99.4"
Chatterton is Wallis's earliest and most famous work. The picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, accompanied by the following quotation from Marlowe:
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough.
Ruskin described the work in his Academy Notes as 'faultless and wonderful'.
Chatterton is Wallis's earliest and most famous work. The picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, accompanied by the following quotation from Marlowe:
ReplyDeleteCut is the branch that might have grown full straight
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough.
Ruskin described the work in his Academy Notes as 'faultless and wonderful'.