Charles Augustus Howell was a Portuguese-British art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal.
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Charles Augustus Howell was a Portuguese-British art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal. His reputation as a blackmailer inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1840 to 1890 · aged 50
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