The portrait below shows Lord Byron when he was young. It was painted by the famous artist Richard Westall in 1813. It is the most famous portrait of Byron and it is displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London
Lord Byron was a really self conscious individual and why he became very self conscious is because he was born with a defect called the clubfoot. This defect describes a person with one or both feet turned inward at the ankle. His childhood was not so much effected by the defect or at least it didn't say so in my research. Just imagine though, having a weird looking foot and being made fun of. (Previous sentence is my guess not a fact.)
All the portraits and drawings of Lord Byron were changed a little because Byron wanted only perfect pictures even if it meant that the pictures will not look 100% like real him. Historians describe him as a beautiful young man who had the looks. From my point of view he was a total player. Byron had a lot of young women who wanted his attention and sex.
He made himself a legend. When he wrote his works, some of them were not published, actually a big amount of his works were burned. It is unknown exactly why, but the burning of his works made people use there imagination and try to guess what exactly was in the pages he burned.
In the research I have found out that Byron had a dark side to him, a gothic side. The research states that he had a mansion and he was throwing a lot of parties there. Inviting a lot of young women and men made it possible for him to bring the word out. Costume parties were one of the personal favorites for Lord Byron. His favorite costume was monk costume. At the parties there was everything, alcohol, drugs, and sex.
In the picture below you can see a whine container. This wine container was one of the favorite things Lord Byron liked to use. It complimented his monk look.
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