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Born January 9, 1819 • England
Died November 2, 1909 (aged 90) • London • England

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The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
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Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
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