True photograph of David Henry Friston's oil on canvas, The Toy Seller (20 x 30", or 50.8 x 76.2 cm), sold as Lot 3278 at Butterfield's European Paintings sale on November 18, 1999.
David Henry Friston
(1820 - 1906) was a British illustrator and figure painter in the Victorian Era. He is best remembered as the creator of the first illustrations of Sherlock Holmes in 1887, as well as his illustrations of the controversial female vampire story Carmilla (1872). He is also remembered for his illustrations accompanying reviews of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and plays of W. S. Gilbert in The Illustrated London News and the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in the 1870s and 1880s.
