Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.
- Occupation
- painter
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- December 7, 1793
- Died
- August 3, 1879
