This portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is quite unlike any of the others that exist of her, and of the existing portraits, this is the only one painted after her death. The artist meant to compliment an existing portrait of Robert Browning in his youth by imagining what Elizabeth Barrett looked like in her youth. Both paintings now hang, side by side, in the "Elizabeth Barrett Browning Room" on the top floor of the Armstrong Browning Library. Since, in many ways, this web-page project involves reconstructing an image of Elizabeth, the creator felt it would be appropriate to include a fantastical image of Elizabeth in her youth. Just as the painter imagined her, we imagine her through poetry, art, music, and scholarship.

For a collection of the EBB portriats in the Armstrong Browning Library Click here.