William Dyce

Madonna and Child

c.1827–30

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In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: 1810

Free entry
Artist
William Dyce 1806–1864
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 1029 x 806 mm
frame: 1240 x 1010 x 57 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Colonel Ernest Carrick Freeman 1963
Reference
T00618

Display caption

Dyce visited Italy in the late 1820s. While there he became aware of the art of the Nazarenes, a group of German painters. They were inspired by 15th-century religious painting, and set out to create an art for their own times which possessed the same moral purpose. This picture, modelled on Raphael’s ‘Madonna and Child’ subjects of the early 1500s is quite uncharacteristic of English art of the 1830s. In this sort of picture, Dyce emerges as a precursor of the Pre-Raphaelites. As a senior Royal Academician he was an important supporter of their aim to renew English art.

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