Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1826 to 1850
Medium
lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5461
Art Historical Context
In the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection,phonse Legros's lithograph *Alfred Lord Tennyson* offers compelling portrait of one of Victorian England's greatest poets. Created between 1826 and 1850, this print Tennyson (1809–1892), celebrated for epic like *In Memoriam* and *The Lady of Shalott*, during his formative years as he rose to literary prominence. Legros, a French-born artist who later worked in Britain, was renowned for his realistic portraits and contributions to the 19th-century etching and print revival, blending meticulous detail with expressive depth. Lithography, the...
About the Artist
Alphonse Legros · 1837–1911
Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) was born in Dijon, France, and trained in Paris at the drawing school of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose unconventional teaching method — which emphasised memory drawing and acute observation over academic convention — would leave a lasting mark on Legros's practice. At Lecoq's school he formed friendships with Jules Dalou and Auguste Rodin that endured throughout hi...