Sue Brown is an independent scholar based in London and Malta. She read history at Oxford and Toronto Universities. For over thirty years she was a career civil servant, including spells with the British Embassy in Washington and as Head of the Arts Division at the Department of National Heritage. She has published a number of articles on Gladstone and on Severn and co-edited with Grant Scott New Letters of Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (2007). Her latest book is Small Island, Great Riches The Life of Paul Asciak, Tenor and Teacher from Malta (Allied Publications, 2010).

• Introduction ; 1. A Hazardous Childhood ; 2. The Royal Academy Student ; 3. Painter and Poet ; 4. The Warm South ; 5. Piazza di Spagna ; 6. 'Thanks Joe' ; 7. 'The Most Striking Year of My Life' ; 8. The RA Pensioner ; 9. 'Searching for Fame and Fortune' ; 10. Love, Marriage, and Persecution ; 11. 'Everybody's Man and a Very Obliging Creature': Severn in his Roman Prime ; 12. Going Home ; 13. The Passion for Fresco ; 14. The Friend of Keats ; 15. An Interlude in Pimlico ; 16. British Consul ; 17. The New Rome ; 18. Keeper of the Flame ; 19. A Fitting Place

ambitiously researched and richly detailed... [a] fine study

Sue Brown is an independent scholar based in London and Malta. She read history at Oxford and Toronto Universities. For over thirty years she was a career civil servant, including spells with the British Embassy in Washington and as Head of the Arts Division at the Department of National Heritage. She has published a number of articles on Gladstone and on Severn and co-edited with Grant Scott New Letters of Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (2007). Her latest book is Small Island, Great Riches The Life of Paul Asciak, Tenor and Teacher from Malta (Allied Publications, 2010).

• Introduction ; 1. A Hazardous Childhood ; 2. The Royal Academy Student ; 3. Painter and Poet ; 4. The Warm South ; 5. Piazza di Spagna ; 6. 'Thanks Joe' ; 7. 'The Most Striking Year of My Life' ; 8. The RA Pensioner ; 9. 'Searching for Fame and Fortune' ; 10. Love, Marriage, and Persecution ; 11. 'Everybody's Man and a Very Obliging Creature': Severn in his Roman Prime ; 12. Going Home ; 13. The Passion for Fresco ; 14. The Friend of Keats ; 15. An Interlude in Pimlico ; 16. British Consul ; 17. The New Rome ; 18. Keeper of the Flame ; 19. A Fitting Place

ambitiously researched and richly detailed... [a] fine study

Sue Brown is an independent scholar based in London and Malta. She read history at Oxford and Toronto Universities. For over thirty years she was a career civil servant, including spells with the British Embassy in Washington and as Head of the Arts Division at the Department of National Heritage. She has published a number of articles on Gladstone and on Severn and co-edited with Grant Scott New Letters of Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (2007). Her latest book is Small Island, Great Riches The Life of Paul Asciak, Tenor and Teacher from Malta (Allied Publications, 2010).

• Introduction ; 1. A Hazardous Childhood ; 2. The Royal Academy Student ; 3. Painter and Poet ; 4. The Warm South ; 5. Piazza di Spagna ; 6. 'Thanks Joe' ; 7. 'The Most Striking Year of My Life' ; 8. The RA Pensioner ; 9. 'Searching for Fame and Fortune' ; 10. Love, Marriage, and Persecution ; 11. 'Everybody's Man and a Very Obliging Creature': Severn in his Roman Prime ; 12. Going Home ; 13. The Passion for Fresco ; 14. The Friend of Keats ; 15. An Interlude in Pimlico ; 16. British Consul ; 17. The New Rome ; 18. Keeper of the Flame ; 19. A Fitting Place

ambitiously researched and richly detailed... [a] fine study