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Charles Dickens

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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This portrait represents the dual aspects of Dickens's high-profile career, first as a writer and then, from 1858, as a public reader of his works. They mark the assured celebrity the author had attained by this point in the mid-nineteenth century. While Daniel Maclise's early portrait of Dickens captures a romantic image of the handsome young writer enjoying the first taste of fame, Watkins records the confident stance of the established author who had already become a household name but still had the zeal to embark on a secondary theatrical career.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Charles Dickens

Date

1858

Medium

albumen print, arched top

Measurements

H 19 x W 15.2 cm

Accession number

P301(19)

Acquisition method

purchased, 1985

Work type

Photograph

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