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Carte-de-visite mounted albumen photograph of author Wilkie Collins. Dimensions, including mount: 11 x 7 cm: Date: 1864 [1] Source: Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts) / Boston Public Library: Author: Cundall, Downes & Co: Other versions: File:Wilkie Collins by Cundall, Downes & Co.jpg - Restoration (JPEG)
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
Carte-de-visite mounted albumen photograph of author Wilkie Collins. Dimensions, including mount: 11 x 7 cm: Date: 1864 [1] Source: Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts) / Boston Public Library: Author: Photographer: Cundall, Downes & Co. Restored by:
He also worked as an illustrator, collaborating with George du Maurier in producing the images for the Wilkie Collins book Poor Miss Finch. [3] About 1878 he moved more or less exclusively into portrait painting, drawing praise from John Everett Millais for his representation of women. [citation needed]
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The painting of Collins was known as Wilkie Collins until Collins' death in 1889. It was subsequently exhibited as The Late Mr. Wilkie Collins at the age of 56. Goodman's trip to Windsor might have led to The Queen's son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, sitting for Goodman (the Prince never sat for another artist).
"The Lady of Glenwith Grange" is a novella by the nineteenth-century English writer Wilkie Collins.The story was first published as one of six short stories by Collins in a collection entitled After Dark, published in 1856; it was his first collection of short stories.
Portrait by John Everett Millais, 1850. This is a bibliography of the works of Wilkie Collins. Novels. Iolani, or Tahiti as it was.