What was the name of Charles Dickens's daughter who became a successful painter?

Charles Dickens’s daughter who became a successful painter was Katey Dickens, later known as Kate Perugini. Her formal name was Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens, but her family called her Kate or Katey.

Born in 1839, she was Dickens’s youngest surviving daughter and reportedly his favourite child. She studied art at Bedford College and developed an independent career rather than relying solely on her father’s reputation.

Kate began exhibiting paintings at Royal Academy exhibitions in 1877 and also showed work at the Grosvenor Gallery and the Society of Lady Artists. She became particularly known for portraits and genre paintings of women and children, including A Little Woman and Feeding Rabbits.

She married artists Charles Allston Collins and later Charles Edward Perugini. After her second marriage, she was generally known as Kate Perugini, which can cause confusion in trivia questions: Katey Dickens, Kate Dickens Perugini, and Kate Perugini all refer to the same painter.