Portrait of Charles Dickens
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| Portrait of Charles Dickens | |
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| Artist | Daniel Maclise |
| Year | 1839 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 91.4 cm × 71.4 cm (36.0 in × 28.1 in) |
| Location | National Portrait Gallery, London |
Portrait of Charles Dickens is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise, from 1839. It is a depiction of the English novelist Charles Dickens, still in his youth.[1][2] Dickens's 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.
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]
