Seated Man
Charles Samuel Keene
1801 to 1825
Medium
graphite touched with white gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 13.9 x 7.2 cm (5 1/2 x 2 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1995.52.91
About the Artist
Charles Samuel Keene
Charles Samuel Keene (1823–1891) was born on 10 August 1823 in Hornsey, Middlesex, the son of solicitor Samuel Browne Keene and Mary Sparrow. Following his father's early death, young Charles was educated at Ipswich School until age sixteen, then briefly articled to a London solicitor before transferring to the office of architect William Pilkington. Finding these pursuits uncongenial, he apprenti...