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Marryat
Marryat is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Joseph Marryat loved drawing dead rulers more than living ones. When Napoleon’s corpse arrived in England in 1821, he sketched the emperor’s waxy face from memory, one eye slightly open, as if the man had just blinked. You’ll recognize the shaky lines and shadowed neck in the sheet titled Napoleon after death, a tiny, gruesome souvenir that makes the whole sordid story feel real. Look at that drawing and you’ll remember empires end with loose stitches and poor lighting.
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