The Tate painting measures 62.2 cm by 93.3 cm, and was completed during 1856.

The painting

The subject of the painting was the 17-year-old English early Romantic poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), shown dead after he had poisoned himself with arsenic in 1770. Chatterton was considered a Romantic hero for many young and struggling artists in Wallis's time.

Wallis's Chatterton

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