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Alexander Pope

Jonathan Richardson the elder (1667–1745)

National Portrait Gallery, London

Alexander Pope

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The son of a linen-draper, Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his Pastorals in 1709. With The Rape of the Lock (1712), and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed'. A friend of Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham, he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age.

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Title

Alexander Pope

Date

c.1737

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61.3 x W 45.7 cm

Accession number

1179

Acquisition method

Given by Alfred de Pass, 1898

Work type

Painting

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Jonathan Richardson the elder

1667–1745

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