Chatterton (The Death of Chatterton), 1856 Artist: Henry Wallis Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was an unsuccessful poet whose suicide became a symbol of blighted artistic genius. Wallis used his friend George Meredith (1828-1909), also a struggling writer, as the model., Pre-Raphaelite

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