Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture

First published in 2005. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait’s provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.