Fred Barnard

Unidentified photographer

Dated "Nov^r 2^nd/92"

Source: 1896 Illustrated London News

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The Late Mr. Fred Barnard.

Mr. Fred Barnard, who perished on Sunday night in a burning house at Wimbledon, had been long familiar as an illustrator in black and white. His pictures, too, had many admirers — notably, the " Sidney Carton on Scaffold," which was exhibited at Burlington House more than a dozen years ago. Many books owed their illustrations to his pencil, among others an edition of the "Pilgrim's Progress." But Fred Barnard was known best of all by his illustrations of Dickens and by his contributions to "The Illustrated London News." He has been called the Charles Dickens among black - and - white artists, and his name will always be associated with that of the novelist, whose spirit he caught with wonderful skill in his renderings of Pickwick, Pecksniff, Mark Tapley, Bill Sikes, and the rest. Dickens had many illustrators of eminence, but none, perhaps, who brought gaiety and pathos, beauty and burlesque, so even-handedly to his inexhaustible task. Mr. Barnard, when he met with his death, was in the house of Mr. Mayall in Morton Hall Road, Wimbledon and the fatal fire originated in the artist's own room, where he had evidently been smoking in bed. Though he survived util the fire was extinguished, he was unable to give any account of the accident by which, under circumstances so tragic, he lost his life.

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Illustrated London News (3 October 1896): 423.

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