JMW Turner, Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault were among the artists inspired by the much-portrayed poet whose concern for Venice and the Parthenon Marbles has a resonance 200 years after his death
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The Grade I listed stately home is beautiful by any measure, mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Olletorop’ and today the lead feature of the grand Northamptonshire estate headed up by Earl Spencer, the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
Now, thanks to social media and the inordinate amount of time one spends at home, voyeurs are regularly given a joyful glimmer into life inside the great historic house. Yesterday was no different – when Earl Spencer retweeted a post from Althorp’s official account. It was a photograph to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of the poet John Keats which the Earl was celebrating with the reading of a sonnet for a virtual event held by Oxford’s Magdalen College, his alma mater.
Wanted in Rome
23 Feb, 2021
Mary Wilsey
This is a tale of two young men who travelled to Rome and took up lodgings in Piazza di Spagna. One of them had tuberculosis and thought a winter in Rome might give him a longer lease on life. The other was there to accompany his sick friend but he also made the trip from London because he thought it would benefit his career as an artist and win him a Royal Academy scholarship.
They arrived in Rome in mid-November 1820 after a long journey by sea from London to Naples and then overland to Rome. Just over three months later, on 23 February 1821, John Keats died in a small room on the second floor of Piazza di Spagna 26 with only his friend Joseph Severn at his side. He was just 25. It was a difficult and lonely death.