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The Work of Charles Samuel Keene
Charles Keene was one of a small group of mid-Victorian draughtsmen, among them John Tenniel and George du Maurier, who was responsible for greatly improving the quality of British illustration during the 1860s and 1870s. Untrained, but with pre-Raphaelite devotion to studying from nature, Keene became the strongest black and white artist of his time contributing not only to Punch, but to many of the other periodicals of the gay such as Once a Week. Almost alone among these men, Keene obtained an international reputation and was widely admired in America and Europe. The American artist James McNeil Whistler described Keene as 'the greatest artist since Hogarth'. Edgar Degas owned his books and Camille Pissaro recommended him to his son Lucien.
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The Work of Charles Keene
Excerpt from The Work of Charles Keene: With an Introduction and Comments on the Drawings Illustrating the Artist's Methods Wish to state that I am only responsible for the Introduction to this volumem - a volume which has grown far beyond its original limits, though I believe it to be in its present form a vast improvement on the plan which was first proposed. I should like also to acknowledge the assistance I have received from Mrs. Edwin Edwards and Mr. Henry Keene. Mr. Chesson desires to acknowledge particularly the kindness of Mrs. Edwards, Mr. J. P. Heseltine, and Mr. Henry Keene in according him the privilege of examining their collections of Keene's drawings and etchings. For assista...
