Charles Dickens Playing Sir Charles Coldstream

Image credit: Charles Dickens Museum, London

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Charles Dickens was a keen amateur actor and formed a theatrical group together with the likes of Augustus Egg and Mark Lemon. Egg was a celebrated artist and painted this portrait of Dickens in the role of Sir Charles Coldstream in the production of ‘Used Up!’.

Charles Dickens Museum, London

London

Title

Charles Dickens Playing Sir Charles Coldstream

Date

1850s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 60 x W 49 cm;
H 59 x W 49 cm

Accession number

DH293

Acquisition method

gift, 1928

Work type

Painting

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