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George Cattermole George Cattermole
George Cattermole 1800-1868, English watercolor painter and illustrator. His subject matter was varied, and his works were popular during his lifetime. He painted picturesque scenes of antique subjects in a romantic mode. He made illustrations for some of Dickens's works, including Barnaby Rudge. ... Read more
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Sir Edwin Landseer Sir Edwin Landseer
Landseer, Sir Edwin (b London, 7 Mar. 1802 or 1803; d London, 1 Oct. 1873). English painter, sculptor, and engraver, mainly of animal subjects. He was the son of an engraver and writer, John Landseer (1769–1852), and was an infant prodigy. His career was a story of remarkable social as... Read more
Sir Luke Fildes Sir Luke Fildes
Sir Luke Fildes , 1844-1927, English genre and portrait painter, b. Liverpool. He made drawings for the Graphic and other periodicals and illustrated Dickens's Edwin Drood. As a painter he excelled in depicting the life of the London poor. Later he specialized in portraiture and painted the... Read more
Daniel Maclise Daniel Maclise
Daniel Maclise , 1811-70, British painter and illustrator, b. Ireland. His character sketches contributed (1830-38) to Fraser's Magazine under the pseudonym Alfred Croquis were later published as The Maclise Portrait Gallery (1871). He was an excellent portraitist and painted his friend Dickens... Read more
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist The eponymous child hero of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist became a crucial cultural icon of Victorian childhood. Indeed, Dickens published the novel serially from 1837 to 1839, coinciding with the commencement of Queen Victoria's long reign in 1837. The novel follows the... Read more
Augustus Egg Augustus Egg
Egg, Augustus (b London, 2 May 1816; d Algiers, ?26 Mar. 1863). English painter. He painted historical, anecdotal, and literary themes (he was a friend of Dickens and a talented actor), and under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites ( Holman Hunt was another friend) he also turned to overtly... Read more
Pre-Raphaelites Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-Raphaelites , brotherhood of English painters and poets formed in 1848 in protest against the low standards of British art. The principal founders were D. G. Rossetti , W. Holman Hunt , and John Millais . In poetry as well as painting, the Pre-Raphaelites turned away from the growing... Read more
Helen Octavia Dickens Helen Octavia Dickens
Helen Octavia Dickens1909-2001 Physician, surgeon, educator Helen Octavia Dickens served as a pioneer in the field of medicine. In 1945 she became the first female African-American to become board certified in obstetrics and gynecology in Philadelphia; five years later she became the first... Read more
Maidstone Maidstone
Maidstone , city (1991 pop. 86,067), Kent, SE England, on the Medway River. It is a market city with agricultural, paper, printing, quarrying, brewing, and engineering industries. There is evidence of a Roman station. Chillington Manor (Elizabethan) contains the Maidstone Museum, the public library,... Read more

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