Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

Alfred Bryan (1852-1899)

Not dated

Watercolour

14 3/4 in. x 10 3/4 in. (375 mm x 273 mm)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

NPG 3016

Purchased, 1939

This kind of foreshortened caricature is especially appropriate here, because Swinburne was only about five feet tall; but his head was rather fine, with good features and abundant hair. [Click on image to enlarge it and mouse over text for links.]

Image and comment added by Jacqueline Banerjee.

The National Portrait Gallery, London, has released this image on the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence.