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Diane Gaston

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Almost four years ago I saw a framed sketch in a local antique store, advertised as a 19th century hand-drawing. I passed it up, but later decided I was nuts and went back and purchased it for about $40.00. I refrained from excitedly saying to the cashier, "Do you think this is Lord Byron? I really think this is Lord Byron."

The poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the rock star of his day, with adoring fans and great interest in every detail of his life, especially his affairs and scandals. He still fascinates us today.

When I went to England in June 2005, I looked everywhere for a similar portrait of Byron, especially when we visited his estate, Newstead Abbey, but I never saw anything like it. So I am leaving it up to you. I have reversed some well-known Byron portraits and put them in black and white, for comparison.

Is my sketch Lord Byron?

This is what I imagine. A young Regency miss was infatuated with Lord Byron. Perhaps she even glimpsed him in Mayfair, at a ball or at the theatre. She and her girlfriends sighed over his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bought engravings of his portrait at the local print shop. She did what I did when I was a teenager. She drew her own picture of Byron, putting him in exotic dress, like she would have imagined Childe Harold to wear.

Of course, when I was a teenager I drew Beatle Paul McCartney’s portrait. I still have it somewhere, near my photo of William Shatner as Captain Kirk.

Weigh in here with your opinions. Do I have a portrait of Byron?
Confess. Who would you have drawn in those tender years of infatuation?

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Bio:
Diane Gaston writes Regency Romance set in the time of Lord Byron. Her books, published by Harlequin Mills & Boon, have won Romances highest awards and have been released all over the world. Diane and her very unByronic husband live near Washington, DC. Her short story, The Unlacing of Miss Leigh, is available in ebook format from eHarlequin.com and other ebook vendors.   
The Diamonds of Welbourne Manor, an anthology written with two friends, is in North American bookstores May 2009.  

This article first appeared on the Risky Regencies blog, December 11, 2006  <link http://riskyregencies.blogspot.com/  >

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