In Tate Britain
Walk Through British Art: 1810
Free entry- Artist
- William Dyce 1806–1864
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1029 × 806 mm
frame: 1240 × 1010 × 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.
Gallery label, October 2013
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