Category Archives: Author/Poet

Charles Churchill 1731-1764

Author of The Rosciad, 1761, a satire on contemporary actors (only David Garrick escaped his vitriol). Churchill’s other targets included the Prime Minister, Lord Bute, the author, Tobias Smollett and the artist, William Hogarth. He died young on his way to visit his friend, John Wilkes, who was then living in exile in Paris.
Artist: J.S.C. Schaak

Size 15 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

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Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770

English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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