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 Nickleby . He was around twenty seven when he sat for the painting, which is sometimes known as Young Dickens.

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The painting depicts Dickens 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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References

  1. Weston p.119
  2. Murray p.120
  3. Schlicke p.366
  4. "Charles Dickens - National Portrait Gallery".
  5. "Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870. Novelist by Edward Francis Finden | National Galleries of Scotland".

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