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Augustus Leopold Egg
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May 2, 1816, London, England
Died:
March 26, 1863, Algiers, Algeria (aged 46)
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Augustus Egg

British painter
Also known as: Augustus Leopold Egg
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Augustus Egg (born May 2, 1816, London, Englandā€”died March 26, 1863, Algiers, Algeria) was a genre painter and actor.

Egg studied at the Royal Academy, of which he became a member in 1860. He travelled in Italy with Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins in 1853. Egg was an excellent actor and played in Dickensā€™ company of amateurs; one of his best parts was as John Want in Collinsā€™ Frozen Deep. As a painter, he was famous in his day for small anecdotal paintings, many of them on subjects from contemporary novelists, including Scott and Thackeray.

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