- Brief description
- Painting, Dickens's Dream by Robert W. Buss, 1875
- Label
- This painting by Robert William Buss, an enthusiastic admirer of Charles Dickens’s writings and his contemporary, was painted five years after the author’s death. The posthumous painting of Dickens celebrates the writer's vivid imagination and depicts characters from all his books, spanning 'Pickwick Papers' to 'Edwin Drood', surrounding Dickens in his library at Gad’s Hill Place. The setting was modelled on Luke Filde's illustration 'Empty Chair', and the figure of Dickens was copied from a well-known photograph by John Watkins (1861-1863). This panting was never finished but its ethereal quality has garnered it the title 'Dickens's Dream'.
- Collection
- Object
- Object number
- DH111
- Object type
- oil painting
- Title
- Dickens's Dream
A Souvenir of Dickens - Production person
- Buss, Robert W.
- Production date
- 1875
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