Unknown man, formerly known as John Clare Portrait Print
Unknown man, formerly known as John Clare NPG 3843
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by William Henry Hunt
Promoted as 'the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet', Clare spent much of his life as a poor agricultural labourer before mental illness condemned him to an asylum in 1837. His intensely detailed poetry reflects his love of his native countryside. It also movingly describes the hardship suffered by the rural poor living in a landscape being destroyed by enclosure. Clare enjoyed a brief London vogue with his Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) and The Village Minstrel (1821). In 1827, he published The Shepherd's Calendar... more
Extra small 102mm x 153mm £6.00
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Medium 483mm x 329mm £30.00
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