Byron's Dream
Byron's Dream (1889)
by
Ford Madox Brown


This painting by Brown (1821-1893) shows Byron and a woman (identified by some sources as Mary Chaworth) with a Newfoundland — presumably Boatswain, but idealized by Ford and portrayed according to the appearance of later C19 Newfoundlands — on Diadem Hill, looking out over the village of Annesley, in Nottingham, close to Byron's ancestral estate of Newstead Abbey.

(There is another painting with this same title, by Sir Charles Locke Eastlake, painted in 1827, which shows Byron daydreaming among Greek ruins with a small group of gypsies or other exotically dressed characters nearby, but no dog. A camel — yes, in Greece — but no dog.)




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