Charles Dickens

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Signed (lower left): Hy. F.
Inscribed in pencil (along the bottom): Charles Dickens at the end of [his life?] with the measurements 6 ½ (above) and 3 ½ inch (below) and the number 8846

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Purchased from the artist's sons, through Theodore Cluse, 1947.

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H. Furniss, The Two Pins Club (1925), facing p 53.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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