Daniel MacliseIrish, 1806–1870Charles Dickens
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
The National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Sep 29, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
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. Dickens's 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.
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. Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, in London, having been transferred from the Tate Galleries in 2012. An engraving based on the painting was produced by Edward Francis Finden.
Particulars
- Accession number
- NG1250
Sources
- Wikidata · fetched 5 days ago
- Image: The National Gallery — Daniel Maclise · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
