Ford Madox Brown

1821–1893

Ford Madox Brown, ‘Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet’ 1852–6
Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet 1852–6
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Biography

Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a French-born British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work (1852–65). Brown spent the latter years of his life painting the Manchester Murals, depicting Mancunian history, for Manchester Town Hall.

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Pre-Raphaelite

Artworks

Ford Madox Brown, ‘Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet’ 1852–6

Ford Madox Brown Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet

1852–6
N01394
Ford Madox Brown, ‘The Last of England’ 1864–6

Ford Madox Brown The Last of England

1864–6
N03064
Ford Madox Brown, ‘Lear and Cordelia’ 1849–54

Ford Madox Brown Lear and Cordelia

1849–54
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art N03065
Ford Madox Brown, ‘‘Take your Son, Sir’’ ?1851–92

Ford Madox Brown ‘Take your Son, Sir’

?1851–92
N04429
Ford Madox Brown, ‘The Hayfield’ 1855–6

Ford Madox Brown The Hayfield

1855–6
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art T01920
Ford Madox Brown, ‘Chaucer at the Court of Edward III’ 1856–68

Ford Madox Brown Chaucer at the Court of Edward III

1856–68
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art N02063
Ford Madox Brown, ‘Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet’ 1857–8

Ford Madox Brown Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet

1857–8
N05301
Ford Madox Brown, ‘Our Lady of Good Children’ 1847–61

Ford Madox Brown Our Lady of Good Children

1847–61
N02684
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Artist as subject

Ford Madox Brown, ‘The Last of England’ 1864–6

Ford Madox Brown The Last of England

1864–6
N03064
Ford Madox Brown, ‘The Hayfield’ 1855–6

Ford Madox Brown The Hayfield

1855–6
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art T01920
Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Mr William Bell Scott Wondering What It is Those Fellows Seem to See in Gabriel’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Mr William Bell Scott Wondering What It is Those Fellows Seem to See in Gabriel

1916
View by appointment A01056
Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Ford Madox Brown being Patronized by Holman Hunt’ 1916

Sir Max Beerbohm Ford Madox Brown being Patronized by Holman Hunt

1916
A01043
Hampstead Artists Council (London, UK), ‘Hampstead Artists’ Council souvenir exhibition catalogue titled ‘Hampstead Artists Past and Present’’ 1946

Hampstead Artists Council (London, UK) Hampstead Artists’ Council souvenir exhibition catalogue titled ‘Hampstead Artists Past and Present’

1946
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Film and audio

MixTate: FaltyDL on Ford Madox Brown

For the fourth in our series, New York-based producer FaltyDL takes inspiration from Ford Madox Brown’s Take Your Son, Sir ...

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William Dyce, ‘Madonna and Child’ c.1827–30
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William Morris, ‘Guinevere and Iseult: Cartoon for Stained Glass’ 1862
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Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts was a design movement initiated by William Morris in 1861 which aimed to improve the quality of ...

John Everett Millais Lorenzo and Isabella 1848–9
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Sugar, Salt and Curdled Milk: Millais and the Synthetic Subject

Carol Jacobi

This article examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. It argues that criticism ...

William Blake Detail of Plate 10 from 'The First Book of Urizen'
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MicroTate 19

Kenneth Stephens , Steve James , Rachel Hedley , John Purkis , Petina Gappah , Mary Bennett and Nathan Dunne

Individual reflections on a work in the Tate collection

A 150 year-old primed canvas which has never been painted displays all the basic deterioration characteristics of a finished painting on a stretched canvas
Tate Papers

Paintings on Canvas: Lining and Alternatives

Stephen Hackney

This paper catalogues major changes in attitude during the last thirty years to conservation practice for the treatment of degraded ...

Turner’s ‘Chelsea’ palette, used at the end of his life
Tate Papers

The Materials Used by British Oil Painters in the Nineteenth Century

Joyce H. Townsend

This paper reviews existing literature on nineteenth-century British artists’ materials. Sources of information, such as colourmen’s archives, artists’ diaries ...

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