1. Frederick Barnard was an English illustrator, caricaturist and genre painter.
13 Facts About Fred Barnard
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Fred Barnard is noted for his work on the novels of Charles Dickens published between 1871 and 1879 by Chapman and Hall.
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Fred Barnard studied art under Leon Bonnat in Paris, and worked in London and at Cullercoats on the Northumberland coast.
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Fred Barnard's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art.
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Fred Barnard worked as an illustrator for Punch, The Illustrated London News, and Harper's Weekly.
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In 1870 Fred Barnard married Alice Faraday, a niece of Michael Faraday.
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In 1871 Fred Barnard was commissioned by Chapman and Hall to illustrate nine volumes of the Household Edition of Dickens' work.
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Fred Barnard followed in the footsteps of the respected illustrator Hablot Knight Browne who had worked with Dickens himself.
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Fred Barnard concentrated on illustrating scenes other than those that Browne and Dickens had chosen to portray.
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Whereas Browne was inclined to create dramatic group scenes for his prints, Fred Barnard was more interested in showing the relationships between pairs of characters.
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On 27 September 1896 Fred Barnard died at his home, Aber-Maw on Merton Hall Road in Wimbledon after his bedclothes caught fire from the pipe he was smoking while under the influence of a drug, probably laudanum.
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Fred Barnard was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's church in Wimbledon.
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Fred Barnard was married to Alice Faraday on the Isle of Wight on 11 August 1870.