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The subject was taken from the story of Sir Tristram and La Belle Iseult as told by Malory in the 'Morte d'Arthur.' The design was originally conceived in September 1862 for a stained glass window produced by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. The window was one of thirteen illustrating the story for the entrance hall of Harden Grange, near Bingley, the home of Walter Dunlop, a Bradford merchant. In 1863 Brown used the composition for a watercolour and in 1864 he produced this version in oil for George Rae.LM
- Presented by the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund, 1916.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Ford Madox Brown |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
Sir Tristram/ How he was traytoursly slayne with a trenchant glayve by Kinge Marke, and how the Lady La Beale Isoud threw herself fauning on his bodye and soe died |
Inscription |
frame |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
The Exhibition of Work, and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown |
32 |
191 Piccadilly, London |
1865 - 1865 |
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British Art Fifty Years Ago |
500 |
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
1905 - 1905 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Art |
7 |
National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
1962-03 - 1962-03 |
7 |
Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth |
1962-04 - 1962-05 |
7 |
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart |
1962-06 - 1962-07 |
7 |
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
1962-07 - 1962-08 |
7 |
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
1962-08 - 1962-09 |
7 |
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
1962-10 - 1962-10 |
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British Royal Family Exhibition |
90 |
Seibu Department Store, Tokyo |
1967 - 1967 |
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William Morris and the Middle Ages |
142 |
Whitworth Art Gallery |
1984-09-28 - 1984-12-8 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
The Exhibition of Work, and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown |
Ford Madox Brown |
1865 |
Privately published by the artist. |
pp. 13-14 |
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Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works |
F M Hueffer |
1896 |
Longmans, Green and Co., London |
pp. 197, 200, 418, 440; repr. op. p. 200 |
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British Art Fifty Years Ago |
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1905 |
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
cat. no. 500 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Diaries and Letters |
William Michael Rossetti |
1900 |
Hurst and Blackett Limited, London |
pp. 111, 114 |
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City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham: Catalogue of Paintings |
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1960 |
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
p. 21 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Art |
Daniel Thomas |
1962 |
The State Art Galleries of Australia |
p. 11 |
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Apollo |
Leonee Ormond |
January 1967 |
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p. 55 |
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The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle |
A Charles Sewter |
1975 |
Yale University Press, New Haven forThe Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
vol. 2, pp. 26-27 |
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Morris and Company in Cambridge |
Duncan Robinson, Stephen Wildman |
1980 |
Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge |
pp. 71-72 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Art Services International, Virginia |
repr. Fig. 56 |
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The Art of Ford Madox Brown |
Kenneth Bendiner |
1998 |
The Pennsylvania State University Press |
p. 25 ff., repr. Fig. 42 |
Provenance
Painted for George Rae in 1864 for £105; purchased from the trustees of George Rae by Public Picture Gallery Fund for £160 in 1915 |
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