Charles keene biography

Charles Samuel Keene

Identity:

Charles Samuel Keene was an etcher, cartoonist and illustrator.

Life:

Keene, who began his career apprenticed to an architect and then a wood-engraver, studied at the Clipstone Street Art Society.

He worked as an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, Once A Week and Punch, producing humorous drawings, satirising contemporary social life.

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Charles Samuel Keene (10 August – 4 January ) was an English artist and illustrator, who worked in black and white.

Charles Samuel Keene (born Aug. 10, , Hornsey, Middlesex, Eng. —died Jan. 4, , London) was an.

Charles Samuel Keene was an English artist and illustrator, who worked in black and white.

Biography.

Pennell described Keene as 'the greatest English artist since Hogarth'.

Keene also illustrated books, for example, F. C. Burnand's Tracks for Tourists () and Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth. He was a member of the Langham Sketching Club and in he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.

Like Whistler, he was also a member of The Arts Club from until In an exhibition of of his works were exhibited at the Fine Art Society. His Self-Portrait was bought by the Chantrey Bequest in

Whistler's closely observed Thames Set, showing life at the docks of Rotherhithe