Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834), PoetRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 10 portraits
As a youth, the poet Coleridge was a radical inspired by the French Revolution. With Robert Southey he planned to emigrate to America to establish a 'pantisocratic' society of equals. In 1798, his collaboration with William Wordsworth culminated in Lyrical Ballads which, with Wordsworth's later 'Preface' (1800), became a manifesto for revolutionary poetics. Coleridge's most successful poems include the visionary Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Frost at Midnight (1798) and Kubla Khan (1816). Later in life he was largely responsible for introducing the English-speaking world to the philosophy of German-Idealism.
by Robert Hancock
black, red and brown chalk and pencil, 1796
NPG 452
by Washington Allston
oil on canvas, 1814
NPG 184
by James Gillray, published by John Wright
etching, published 1 August 1798
NPG D13093
by James Gillray, published by John Wright
hand-coloured etching, published 1 August 1798
NPG D13094
by Unknown artist
stipple and line engraving, circa 1798
NPG D13985
by William Say, published by Marseille Middleton Holloway, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 2 November 1840
NPG D32122
by William Say, published by Marseille Middleton Holloway, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 2 November 1840
NPG D19942
by Samuel Cousins, after Washington Allston
mezzotint, published 1854
NPG D34029
by Samuel Cousins, after Washington Allston
mezzotint, published 1854
NPG D34030
Related People
- Derwent Coleridge (son)
- Edward Coleridge (nephew)
- Ernest Hartley Coleridge (grandson)
- (David) Hartley Coleridge (son)
- Sir John Taylor Coleridge (nephew)
- Sara Coleridge (daughter)
- William Hart Coleridge (nephew)
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