Thomas Rymer: Quick Facts


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Born 1641 • near Northallerton • England
Died December 14, 1713 (aged 72) • London • England
Notable Works “The Tragedies of the Last Age”
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
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Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
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Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
Fell, portrait by Sir Peter Lely; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, county of Avon
John Fell
English educator, priest, and author
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
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John Walter, I
English publisher
William Bowles, engraving by Thomson, first quarter of the 19th century, after a painting by Mullar
William Lisle Bowles
British poet and clergyman
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William Rastell
English printer and lawyer
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John Middleton Murry
British critic
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Henry Muddiman
English journalist
John Nichols, engraving by Charles Heath after a portrait by J. Jackson
John Nichols
English writer
Dodsley, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London
Robert Dodsley
English author and publisher
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Sir Peter Quennell
British writer
Furnivall, pencil sketch by Charles Haslewood Shannon, c. 1911; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederick James Furnivall
British scholar