Portrait of Charles Dickens

For the 1855 painting, see Portrait of Charles Dickens (Scheffer).

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 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.

Portrait of Charles Dickens
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

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]

See also

• Charles Dickens in His Study, an 1859 portrait by William Powell Frith