page_title: Margaret Gillies
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Gillies / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: "Portrait of Charles John Huffman Dickens (1812-1870), wearing dark jacket and cravat, white waistcoat, his dark hair worn collar-length in long curls, 1843"
context_page_description: Margaret Gillies was a London-born Scottish painter, known for painting miniatures and water-colours.
context_section_description: Before she was 24, Gillies was commissioned to paint a miniature of William Wordsworth, and stayed at Rydal Mount for several weeks. She has three oil paintings in British national collections—in Aberystwyth, Nottingham and the National Portrait Gallery. Pamela Gerrish Nunn wrote that she "combined an early-Victorian aesthetic with a mid-Victorian independence of mind".
caption: Charles Dickens, portrait by Margaret Gillies, 1843
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