Bidspirit auction | Charles Keene ”the Artists' Artist”

Charles Keene ”the Artists' Artist” 1823-1891 - London, Christie's, 1991.  74 pp., il., 24.3 by 21.1 cm Softcover book in good condition. Ex-Library book. Charles Samuel Keene (10 August 1823 – 4 January 1891) was an English artist and illustrator, who worked in black and white. Charles Keene began his career as an apprentice with an architect and with Whympers, the wood-engravers, pursuing his studies at the Clipstone Street Art society. He worked for the Illustrated London News and subsequently for Punch. Keene's illustrations for Punch introduced, wherever possible, the social side of the magazine's political concerns. English Edition. Rare to find.