Joseph Severn
British, b.1793, d.1872
Portrait of John Crossley of Scaitcliffe M.A. Todmorden
- 1851
- Oil on canvas on board
- Presented by Mrs Turnbull, 1981
- 1400 x 1100mm
- 81/06
Tags: animals, dogs (animals), hats, landscapes (representations), men (male humans), people (agents), portraits, sketches, trees, walking sticks
Joseph Severn is best-known for his friendship with John Keats and the portraits he made of him before the poet’s death in Rome in 1821. Severn’s portrait of Todmorden landowner and barrister John Crossley was brought to New Zealand by descendants of his heir and nephew, early Canterbury sheep farmer Croslegh Dampier-Crossley.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
Exhibition History
![Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000](/media/cache/05/97/05970cdff0f6b3264062d69bf2aa90f5.jpg)
