Keene

Keene, CHARLES SAMUEL, an inimitable artist in black and white, born of Ipswich ancestry at Hornsey, 10th August 1823, was educated at Bayswater and Ipswich, and, having tried both law and architecture, was at nineteen apprenticed to a wood-engraver. He worked for Punch from about 1851 to within five months of his death at Hammer-smith, on 4th January 1891. See Life by G. S. Layard (1893), and The Work of John Keene, by Pennell and Chesson (1897).