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

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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)

Read more about the Crossley family.

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
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No place like Rome

No place like Rome

And so to Rome to see, among other things, the grave of Joseph Severn.