ROBERT WILLIAM BUSS (BRITISH 1804-1875)

ROBERT WILLIAM BUSS (BRITISH 1804-1875)
Old admiral at home, reenacting the battle
signed (lower left)
oil on panel
20 x 28 cm
Robert William Buss a Victorian artist, etcher and illustrator perhaps best known for his painting Dickens' Dream. Buss was commissioned by Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall, to provide two illustrations for The Pickwick Papers.