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Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was a British artist and illustrator. Well known by his pen name, Phiz , he illustrated books by Charles Dickens , Charles Lever , Augustus Septimus Mayhew and Harrison Ainsworth .
Hablot Knight Browne (born June 15, 1815, Lambeth, near London—died July 8, 1882, Brighton, East Sussex, Eng.) was a British artist, preeminent as an interpreter and illustrator of Dickens’ characters.
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Hablot Knight (Phiz) Browne (1815 - 1882) RA Collection: People and Organisations. English illustrator, etcher and painter. Best known as the illustrator of the novels of Charles Dickens, under the pen-name Phiz. Browne had little formal training as an artist.
Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was a British artist and illustrator. Well known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, Augustus Septimus Mayhew and Harrison Ainsworth.
Learn about the life and work of Hablot Knight Browne, also known as Phiz, the eminent nineteenth-century British book illustrator who created the iconic images of Dickens's novels. Explore his artistic style, his relationship with Dickens, and his legacy in the Victorian Web.
Born in Lambeth in 1815, Hablot Knight Browne was the 14th of fifteen children. His biographer (and great-great-granddaughter) suggests Browne may have been the illegitimate son of his supposed eldest sister and a Captain Nicholas Hablot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.
Prints and drawing. England. 1815–1882. The Tour-sans-Venin, Dauphiné Region, n.d.
