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Lot description
HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE (BRITISH 1815-1882) SEA ALLEGORY signed with initials lower left; watercolour heightened with white on paper; 24 x 34cm; 9 1/2 x 13 1/2in (46.5 x 56cm; 18 1/4 x 22in framed) The fourteenth of fifteen offspring, early on Browne was apprenticed to an engraver, and in his 'twenties met Charles Dickens. After he and Thackeray (see lot 231) submitted work to the author, Dickens selected Browne to illustrate later installments of Pickwick Papers. Author and illustrator became close friends, often travelling together including to Yorkshire to research the background to Nicholas Nickleby. Working under the pseudonym 'Phiz', Browne illustrated ten of Dickens' books, others included David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit, and Bleak House. Browne also supplied illustrations to Punch magazine.