nly man to whom he could apply the word beautiful." Coleridge said that
"if you had seen him you could scarce disbelieve him... his eyes the open
portals of the sun--things of light and for light." He was likened to "the
god of the Vatican," the Apollo Belvidere.

The best-known portraits are: (1) Byron at the age of seven by Kay of
Edinburgh; (2) a drawing of Lord Byron at Cambridge by Gilchrist (1808);
(3) a portrait in oils by George Sanders (1809); (4) a miniature by Sanders
(1812); (5) a portrait in oils by Richard Westall, R.A. (1813); (6) a
portrait in oils (Byron in Albanian dress) by Thomas Phillips, R.A. (1813);
(7) a portrait in oils by Phillips (1813); (8-9) a sketch for a miniature,
and a miniature by James Holmes (1815); (10) a sketch by George Henry
Harlow (1818); (11) a portrait in oils by Vincenzio Camuccini (in the
Vatican) c. 1822; (12) a portrait in oils by W.H. West (1822); (13) a
sketch by Count D'Orsay (1823). Busts were taken by Bertel Thorwaldsen
(1817) and by Lorenzo Bartolini (1822). The statue (1829) in the library of
Trinity College, Cambridge, is by Thorwaldsen after the bust taken in 1817.

AUTHORITIES.--The best editions of Lord Byron's poetical works are: (1)
_The Works of Lord Byron with his Letters and Journals and his Life_, by
Thomas Moore (17 vols., London, John Murray, 1832, 1833); (2) _The Works of
Lord Byron_ (1 vol., 1837, reissued, 1838-1892); (3) _The Poetical Works of
Lord Byron_ (6 vols., 1855); (4) _The Works of Lord Byron_, new, revised
and enlarged edition, _Letters and Journals_, edited by G.E. Prothero, 6
vols., _Poetry_, edited by E.H. Coleridge (7 vols., 1898-1903); (5) _The
Poetical Works of Lord Byron_, with memoir by E.H. Coleridge (1 vol.,
1905).

The principal biographies, critical notices, memoirs, &c., are:--_Journey
through Albania... with Lord Byron_, by J.C. Hobhouse (1812; reprinted in 2
vols., 1813 and 1855); _Memoirs of the Life and Writings of ... Lord Byron_
[by Dr John Watkins] (1822); _Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius
of Lord Byron_, by Sir E. Brydges, Bart. (1824); _Correspondence of Lord
Byron with a Friend_ (3 vols., Paris, 1824); _Recollections of the Life of
Lord Byron_, by R.C. Dallas (1824); _Journal of the Conversations of Lord
Byron_, by Capt. T. Medwin (1824); _Last Days of Lord Byron_, by W. Parry
(1824); _Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece_, by E. Blaquiere (1825); _A
Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece_, by Cou