Portrait of Charles Dickens

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Portrait of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens by Daniel Maclise.jpg
Artist Daniel Maclise
Year1839
Type Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions91.4 cm× 71.4 cm(36.0 in× 28.1 in)
Location National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Charles Dickens is an 1839 portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise depicting the English novelist Charles Dickens. [1] [2] Dickens debut novel The Pickwick Papers had been a popular success, which he had followed up with Nicholas Nickelby. He was around twenty seven when he sat for the painting, which is sometimes known as Young Dickens. The painting depicts him sitting at a writing table and was generally considered a "good likeness". It was used for the frontispiece of his third novel Nicholas Nickleby . [3] Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been transferred from the Tate Galleries in 2012. [4] An engraving based on the painting was produced by Edward Francis Finden. [5]

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