Egg, Augustus

Egg, Augustus

▪ British painter
born May 2, 1816, London
died March 26, 1863, Algiers

      genre painter and actor.

      Egg studied at the Royal Academy, of which he became a member in 1860. He travelled in Italy with Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins in 1853. Egg was an excellent actor and played in Dickens' company of amateurs; one of his best parts was as John Want in Collins' Frozen Deep. As a painter, he was famous in his day for small anecdotal paintings, many of them on subjects from contemporary novelists, including Scott and Thackeray.

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