Not on display
- Artist
- Ford Madox Brown 1821–1893
- Medium
- Oil paint on mahogany
- Dimensions
- Support: 197 × 276 mm
frame: 350 × 425 × 55 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1934
- Reference
- N04735
Display caption
This intensely coloured painting captures a harvest field just before sunset. Each landscape element is faithfully recorded in jewel-like colours. This is a nostalgic view of rural England, untouched by industrialisation and modern city life. Ford Madox Brown’s view is typical of idealists of the time who believed that an engagement with nature offered spiritual redemption from urban corruption. Brown and his family were facing financial hardship at the time this picture was painted. It was one of a number of ‘potboilers’, modest and straightforward landscapes he hoped would sell easily.
Gallery label, July 2007
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