Hablot Knight Browne - One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis - B1976.1.20 - Yale Center for British Art

Hablot Knight Browne (1815–1882) British artist, preeminent as an interpreter and illustrator of Dickens’ characters. Browne was early apprenticed to the engraver William Finden, in whose studio his only artistic education was obtained. At the age of 19 he abandoned engraving in favour of other artistic work, and a meeting with Dickens two years later determined the form which this would take.