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MS 682 03 01 01 01

Portrait photographs of Robert Browning

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[1856-1889]

11 items

A collection of portrait photographs of Robert Browning. The portraits are listed in chronological order below, given with their Browning Database reference number:

1. Browning aged 44, Mayer and Pierson, Paris, June 1856 (RB18). In half red morocco case, with newspaper cutting describing the discovery of this 'lost' portrait.
2. Browning aged ca.50, Ernest Edwards, London, 1862 (RB37)
3. Browning aged ca.50, Ernest Edwards, London, 1862 (RB38)
4. Browning, Elliot & Fry, May 1871 (RB86)
5. Browning, Rudolph Lehmann, copy of an oil painting, 1875 (RB91). Signed by Browning
6. Browning aged 67, Lock and Whitfield, London, March 1880 (RB114)
7. Browning, Herbert Rose Barraud, ca. 1884 (RB136)
8. Browning aged 77, William H. Grove, London, May 1889 (RB173)
9. Browning, Eveleen Myers, early June 1889 (RB179), signed and inscribed by Browning below portrait.
10. Browning aged 77 and Pen in Venice, Constance Barclay, Venice, November 1889 (RB182), once belonged to Susan Fuller (the Brownings' maid)
11. Browning lying in state in the Palazzo Rezzonico, December 16 1889.

The photograph of Browning lying in state originally belonged to Sarianna Browning and then to Fannie Coddington. It has her handwriting on the reverse.

Portrait no.1 has its own slip case. The other portraits are arranged chronologically within a manilla envelope.

The likenesses of the Brownings on the Browning Database, hosted by Baylor University, can be found here: http://www.browningscorrespondence.com/browning-likenesses/