Portrait of the writer as a young man: Charles Dickens by Margaret Gillies. (Photograph: Philip Mould & Company, via The Guardian)

Guardian: Once lost, a portrait of Dickens is now destined for his former home

Margaret Gillies miniature, rediscovered after 130 years, to be exhibited with the great expectations of a museum in need

Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian

The lost portrait of Charles Dickens, which was recently rediscovered after 130 years, is to go on display in his home in April.

The painting by Margaret Gillies will be shown from 2–7 April in the Charles Dickens Museum in west London, where the novelist wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, completed The Pickwick Papers and began Barnaby Rudge.

Dickens moved into the Bloomsbury townhouse with his young family in 1837. The museum now there possesses the world’s most comprehensive collection of material relating to his life and work.

The museum is trying to raise funds to purchase the painting and bring it permanently to Doughty Street. Its campaign has so far raised £65,000 of the £180,000 required. …

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