PORTRAIT OF KEATS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18247, 14 November 1922, Page 5

PORTRAIT OF KEATS.

Mftp CHARLES BROWN'S SKETCH. In the London Observer of September 24 appears a facsimile of the pencil sketch of the poet Keats, made by Charles Brown, and sent to Sir „ Sidney Colvin by Brown's grand-daughter,v Miss Brown, of Auckland. , In an article dealing with the portrait, Sir Sidney . Colvin says:—" Brown, as is well Jinown, emigratjed to New Zealand with his son toward the end of 1840, and died there little more than a year, later. It is from Aupkland that his granddaughter sends me the facsimile qf the drawing by which readers of the Observer are to-day enabled to judge for themselves of. his skill: not the view of Shanklin Church, but something much more interesting, a finished pencil portrait of Keatß himself. Miss Brown gives ma the following account of the origin of the portrait as traditional in her family:—' Keats and my grandfather were out sketching together; when they came in Keats was a little tired, and lie halfreclined in a couch or easy chair. My grandfather opened his portfolio and made this pencil copy. He was pleased with the result and kept it. Then it passed on to my father;'after his death my mother gave it to me.' I*