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Robert Seymour (1798 – 20 April 1836) was a British illustrator known for his illustrations for The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens and for his caricatures. He committed suicide after arguing with Dickens over the illustrations for Pickwick .
Robert Seymour (1798-1836) was a popular and prolific illustrator and satirical cartoonist who specialized in sporting subjects. He was the first illustrator of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, but he committed suicide after a dispute with the writer over the design of the characters.
Robert Seymour (1798-1836) was a caricaturist and illustrator of part of the Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens. Robert Seymour was born in 1798 in Somerset in England to Henry Seymour and Elizabeth Bishop. When Seymour was still a child, his father died, leaving his wife and children destitute.
Like Dickens, Robert Seymour endured an impoverished childhood. He exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy when he was twenty-two years old. Despite the rejection of his subsequent submissions, he continued to paint numerous portraits and began illustrating books.
Robert Seymour. (1798 - 20 April 1836, Britain) Robert Seymour was an early 19th-century draughtsman. He is most famous for his illustrations for the Charles Dickens novel 'The Pickwick Papers' (1836). In his lifetime he was dubbed "The Shakespeare of caricature" and hailed as the spiritual successor of William Hogarth.
18 de jan. de 2017 · Learn about Robert Seymour, a leading illustrator of British caricature and the first illustrator of Dickens's Pickwick Papers. See his satirical drawings of the political turmoil in Britain and Europe in the 1830s.
The artist and engraver Robert Seymour is chiefly famous for two related things – his role as the first illustrator and (perhaps) part-instigator of Dickens’s first novel Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) and his untimely suicide at the early age of 38 which ultimately resulted in the long and successful alliance between Dickens and ‘Phiz ...
