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William Harrison Ainsworth

Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)

National Portrait Gallery, London

William Harrison Ainsworth

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Ainsworth was an author of popular historical romances. He initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with Rookwood (1834), featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him as the successor to Sir Walter Scott. Jack Sheppard (1839), the story of an eighteenth-century burglar, was equally successful, but its supposed glamorisation of crime proved controversial. From then on Ainsworth switched to historical novels based on places rather than criminals, including The Tower of London (1840), Old St Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (1841), and The Lancashire Witches (1849).

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Title

William Harrison Ainsworth

Date

c.1834

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91.4 x W 70.5 cm

Accession number

3655

Acquisition method

Given by Mrs L. A. Crocker Fox, 1949

Work type

Painting

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Daniel Maclise

1806–1870

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