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Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown was a 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 (1852–1865). Brown spent the latter years of his life painting the twelve works known as The Manchester Murals, depicting Mancunian history, for Manchester Town Hall.
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culture · British painter (1821–1893) · painter · designer · artist · also Ford Madox Brown, Madox Brown, Ford Maddox Brown, Ford Madox-Brown, Brown
Born 16 April 1821 · Died 6 October 1893 · Q319843
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2026· 3 entries
“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes....”
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MutualArt.com: Ford Madox Brown
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2010· 1 entry
The Art Newspaper: Ford Madox Brown's new catalogue raisonné proves flawless
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1893· 1 entry
Died 1893-10-06.
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1861· 1 entry
Which dissolved in 1874 with Morris continuing on his own
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1858· 1 entry
With William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and his former pupil Rossetti
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1857· 1 entry
Brown used Arthur as the model for the baby held by a ragged girl in the foreground of Work, but he died aged only ten months old in July 1857.
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1855· 1 entry
Their son, Oliver Madox Brown (1855–1874) (known as Nolly) showed promise both as an artist and poet, but died of blood poisoning before his maturity.
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1852· 2 entries
Started work on two of his most significant works
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And which he showed at his retrospective exhibition in 1865
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1850· 1 entry
And eventually they were married at St Dunstan-in-the-West in April 1853
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1845· 2 entries
And by Friedrich Overbeck and Peter Cornelius, whom he met in Rome in 1845–46
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To alleviate the illness of his wife, who was suffering from consumption (pulmonary tuberculosis)
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1843· 2 entries
And the family moved back to England in 1844
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Submitted work to the Westminster Cartoon Competition, for compositions to decorate the new Palace of Westminster
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1841· 2 entries
They lived in Montmartre in 1841 with Brown's invalid father who died the following summer.
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With Brown's invalid father who died the following summer
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1840· 1 entry
A work inspired by Lord Byron's poem The Giaour (now lost) and then completed a version of The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, with his cousin and future wife Elizabeth Bromley as one of his models
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1836· 1 entry
To continue his studies under Pieter van Hanselaere
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1835· 1 entry
So Brown could study at the academy under Albert Gregorius
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821-04-16.
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1819· 1 entry
And their son Ford Madox Brown in 1821
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1818· 1 entry
Ford Brown married Caroline Madox, of an old Kentish family
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