Ford Madox Brown
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Ford Madox Brown
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pencil, 1852
6 3/4 in. x 4 1/2 in. (171 mm x 114 mm)
Given by the sitter's son-in-law, William Michael Rossetti, 1895
Primary Collection
NPG 1021
Sitterback to top
- Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), Painter and designer. Sitter in 4 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 14 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Painter and poet. Artist or producer associated with 22 portraits, Sitter in 29 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- MacCarthy, Fiona, Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy 1860-1960, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 October 2014 - 11 January 2015), p. 25
- Marsh, Jan, Character Sketches: The Pre-Raphaelites, 1998
- Marsh, Jan, The Pre-Raphaelite Circle, 2013, p. 51 Read entry
'The wisest and kindest of friends,' wrote Edward Burne-Jones; 'that irascible, quarrelsome old Brown was a very interesting fellow.' This early portrait was given to the National Portrait Gallery by William Rossetti in 1895.
- Marsh, Jan, Insights: The Pre-Raphaelite Circle, 2005, p. 48
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 82
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris (16 October 2014 - 11 January 2015)
Events of 1852back to top
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The Peelites, a breakaway group who had supported Peel during the Corn Law reforms, join the Liberals. The Conservative Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, becomes Prime Minister after Lord John Russell's Liberal administration collapses. The administration is short-lived and replaced by a new Liberal-Peelite coalition, under the leadership of former Tory George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.Art and science
Start of spiritualism craze in England.London physician Peter Mark Roget first publishes his thesaurus.
American author Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the hugely successful anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Scottish physicist William Thomson formulates the second law of thermodynamics, demonstrating that a rapidly expanding gas cools.
International
Independent Boer republics north of the Vaal and Orange rivers are recognised by Britain following the Sand River Convention. Later, the Bloemfontein Convention (1854) formally recognises the independence of Boer republics between the Vaal and Orange rivers, resulting in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.Tension escalates in Crimea as France demands that Turkey end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire.
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