Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth

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Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth

Artist	Daniel Maclise
Year	c.1834
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	91.4 cm × 70.5 cm (36.0 in × 27.8 in)
Location	National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth is a c.1834 portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise depicting the English author William Harrison Ainsworth. Ainsworth was a popular author of historical novels and a contemporary and friend of Dickens.

It is very similar to an illustration by Maclise that appeared in Fraser's Magazine in July 1834. If so it was produced the same year as his breakthrough novel Rookwood was published. Two years later an engraving of it was used to illustrate the frontispiece of the fourth edition of the novel. Today the painting is in the collection National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1949.

References

Ormond p.8
Weston p.287
Carver p.130
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw00053/William-Harrison-Ainsworth?

Bibliography

Carver, Stephen James. The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1850-1882. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
Ormond, Richard. Early Victorian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1974.
Weston, Nancy. Daniel Maclise: Irish Artist in Victorian London. Four Courts Press, 2001.

v t e Daniel Maclise
Paintings	Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth (c. 1834) Portrait of Charles Dickens (1839) The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife (1854) The Death of Nelson (1859-1864) The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo (1861)

v t e William Harrison Ainsworth
People	George Cruikshank Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray
Novels	Rookwood (1834) Crichton (1837) Jack Sheppard (1839) Guy Fawkes (1840) The Tower of London (1840) Old St. Paul's (1841) The Miser's Daughter (1842) Windsor Castle (1842) St. James's (1844) Auriol (1844) The Lancashire Witches (1848) James the Second (1848) The Flitch of Bacon (1854) The Spendthrift (1857) The Constable of the Tower (1861) Cardinal Pole (1863) John Law (1864) The Spanish Match (1865) Old Court (1867) Myddleton Pomfret (1868) Hilary St. Ives (1870) Boscobel (1872) Preston Fight (1875)
Other	Ainsworth's novels origin dispute Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth

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