page_title: Beau Brummell
section_title: Artistic memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Beau Brummell / In the arts / Artistic memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Beau Brummell in Jermyn Street in London
context_page_description: George Bryan "Beau" Brummell was an iconic figure in Regency England and for many years the arbiter of men's fashion. At one time he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled, and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France. Eventually he died shabby and insane in Caen.
  Brummell was remembered afterwards as the preeminent example of the dandy and a whole literature was founded upon his manner and witty sayings which has persisted. His name is still associated with style and good looks, and it has been given to a variety of modern products to suggest their high quality.
context_section_description: A very early portrait of Brummell, along with his elder brother William, occurs in the Joshua Reynolds painting of the curly-headed Brummell children, dating from 1781 and now in the Kenwood House collection. The caricaturist Richard Dighton painted a watercolour of Brummell at the elegant height of his dandyism and used it as the basis for a popular print in 1805. Two centuries later it served as model for a 2002 statue of Brummell by Irena Sedlecká erected in Jermyn Street.  On the other side of Piccadilly, a blue plaque has marked Brummell's former home in Chesterfield Street since 1984, while in 2013 another plaque commemorated his name as a member of the hunting and dining club in Melton Mowbray also patronised by the Prince Regent.
caption: 2002 statue of Beau Brummell by Irena Sedlecká in London's Jermyn Street
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