Category: Dead Sitters Society
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American Scholar Frederick Pottle’s Great Legacy was the ‘Boswell Factory’
Frederick Pottle is the name most-associated with Yale University’s now legendary (I’m not overstating it!) Boswell publishing project. He studied Boswell in the 1920s, he edited the collection from Malahide Castle in the 1930s before moving onto drive what became known as Yale University’s gargantuan ‘Boswell Factory’. Click to read.
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Samuel Johnson, the Greatest Wit and Moralist of Eighteenth Century England
Samuel Johnson was one of the most famous men of the Eighteenth century and this portrait (which I’ve copied) was made in 1772 when Johnson was 63 years of age, by his friend Joshua Reynolds, perhaps the greatest portraitist of the age. Click to learn more about this image.
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Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole Gave Britain Political Stability
You’ve landed on Genius Fan’s first Dead Sitter’s Society post. Welcome. What is the Dead Sitter’s Society about? This series is all about portraits of people from the Eighteenth century (and people from other centuries relevant to that period). Most history blogs show the same portraits, clipped from elsewhere on…
