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The Painter Who Captured Dickens’ Spirit Francis Alexander (February 3, 1800 – March 27, 1880) was an American portrait painter who achieved considerable renown during the Victorian era. Born in Killingly, Connecticut, he possessed a remarkable talent for capturing human emotion and translating it onto canvas with meticulous detail and masterful technique. His artistic journey began with self-taught observation of color—a formative exp
erience that would profoundly shape his distinctive style—and culminated in a distinguished career marked by collaborations with literary luminaries like Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alexander’s upbringing on a Connecticut farm instilled in him a grounding in practical skills alongside an innate fascination for the visual arts. As a young boy, he was often found "picturin' out sunthin'", decorating barn doors and wa…