chlde

Updated: June 9, 2025

When the bust was finished he said, 'It is not at all like me; my expression is more unhappy." West, the American, who five years later painted his lordship at Leghorn, substantiates the above half-satirical anecdote, by the remark, "He was a bad sitter; he assumed a countenance that did not belong to him, as though he were thinking of a frontispiece for Chlde Harold."

John Nichol - Byron