John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)
John Dickens (1785–1851)

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John Dicken's widow, Elizabeth, wrote to the sculptor, Haydon and his wife in 1851, thanking them for an engraving of the bust they had sent her and recalling her late husband: 'I think the likeness of my beloved Husband excellent though there is a saddened expression which was not usual with him – a look that I could imagine after death but I suppose it’s from the rigidity there would be in a Bust…Certainly there was never a Man more unselfish... and ever a Friend to those whom he could serve and a most affectionate kind Husband and Father'.

Charles Dickens Museum, London

London

Title

John Dickens (1785–1851)

Date

1848

Medium

plaster

Measurements

H 55.5 x W 38 x D 21 cm

Accession number

DH480

Acquisition method

gifted, 1927

Work type

Bust

Signature/marks description

on back of shoulders: S. HAYDON London 1848

Inscription description

on the spine of the books at the base: 'Dickens Esq.'

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