Portrait of Robert Southey

{{Short description|Painting by John Opie}}

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| image_file=Robert Southey (1774–1843), Aged 31 John Opie (1761–1807) Keswick Museum.jpg

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| title=Portrait of Robert Southey

| artist=John Opie

| year=1806

| type=Oil on canvas, portrait painting

| height_metric=91

| width_metric=78

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| museum=Keswick Museum

| city=Cumbria

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Portrait of Robert Southey is an 1806 portrait painting by the British artist John Opie.Speck p.140 It depicts the English writer Robert Southey at the age of thirty one. Southey, one of the Lake Poets of the Romantic movement, later became Poet Laureate.

Southey commissioned the work from the Cornish-born Opie one of the leading portraitists of the era.Early p.256 Today it is in the Keswick Museum in Cumbria.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/robert-southey-17741843-aged-31-143500/search/actor:opie-john-17611807/page/5 An engraving based on the portrait was produced by William Henry Egleton, a copy of which is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London.https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw40793/Robert-Southey