William Dickes (1815 - 1892)

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William Dickes (1815-1892) was an English illustrator, engraver, printmaker and lithographer. Dickes worked as apprentice to the wood engraver Robert Edward Branston, Allen Robert Branston’s son, in about 1831. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools in 1835 and displayed examples of oil-colour printing at the Great Exhibition. He founded William Dickes & Company in London about 1864, his workshop and office being at 48 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London (1846–48); 4 Crescent Place, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London (1849–51); 5 Old Fish Street, Doctor’s Common, London (c.1852); 109 Farringdon Road, London (c.1867-1875). Dickes retired in 1873.