1. John Galt, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Colburn & Bentley, 1830), p. 176.
2. Margaret Gardiner Blessington, The Idler in Italy, II (London: H. Holburn, 1839), 393.
3. Christine Kenyon Jones, `Fantasy and Transfiguration: Byron and His Portraits', in Byromania, ed. by Frances Wilson (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999), p. 113.
4. For a detailed record of Byron portraiture, including variants and copies, see Annette Peach, `Portraits of Byron', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 62 (2000), 1-144. For a recent well-illustrated volume, see Geoffrey Bond and Christine Kenyon Jones, Dangerous to Show: Byron and His Portraits (London: Unicorn, 2020).