Robert Louis Stevenson aged 20 1870

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Item no

21072

Title

Robert Louis Stevenson aged 20 1870

Description

Robert Louis Stevenson poses for a full length portrait in an elaborate theatrical costume. He has short brown hair and a moustache. He wears a coat with lace cuffs and breeches. A curtain is draped in the background.

Artist / maker

Moffat, John

Date

1870

Size

12.7 x 18 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and travel writer. Although he was plagued by ill health all his life, he was extraordinarily well-travelled, visiting Europe, America and the South Seas. He married American born Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne in 1880 and is best-known for works like Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (both 1886). From the late 1880s, Stevenson stayed in the South Pacific with his family on his own estate in Vailima in Samoa. He died here on the 3rd December 1894 of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 44, leaving what many consider his best work, Weir of Hermiston (1896) unfinished.

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