Fred BarnardFREDERICK BARNARD was an English illustrator, caricaturist, and genre painter of the Victorian age. He is well-known for his work on the novels of Charles Dickens published between 1871 and 1879 by Chapman and Hall. In 1871 Fred Barnard was commissioed by the book publishing house Chapman and Hall to illustrate nine volumes of the Household Edition of Dickens's work. The collection included Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Sketches by Boz, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Dombey and Son, and Martin Chuzzlewit. Barnard took profound inspiration by the respected illustrator Hablot Knight Browne who had already worked with Dickens. He seamlessly blended the well-known aspect of the characters, created by Browne to the illustrations of the collection, probably after the request of the Chapman and Hall. Perhaps the reason the drawings by Fred Barnards are an echo of the already established appearance of the Browne's characters. Barnard worked over eight years, to approximately 450 illustrations, and tried to put the best of his art concentrating on scenes other than those that Browne and Dickens had chosen to portray. Whereas Browne was inclined to paint dramatic group scenes for his prints, Barnard tried to show the relationships between pairs of characters. He died in 1896 after an accident. Read More Read Less