Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

Fra Angelico Painting

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1853

Accession number: 1904P450

Brown pen and ink and ink brown wash, on paper.

Width: 112 mm

Height: 178 mm

Male figure kneeling at an easel, painting a Madonna and child. Another male figure standing behind the easel reading a book.

Information

Christopher Newall suggests that Rossetti is dwelling here on the history of art, and the idea of the holy and the sensual artist as in 1904P451.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti
102	Burlington Fine Arts Club, London	1883 - 1883

Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting
149	Musée Moderne, Brussels	1929-10-12 - 1929-12-01

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
212(a)	City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham	1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
54	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
54	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life
H C Marillier	1899	George Bell and Sons, London	no. 29, p. 65.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby	p. 364.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
	1947	Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London	p. 7.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol. 1, no. 694, p. 224; vol. 2, pl. 482.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 3D5.

Provenance

Ford Madox Brown; Brown's sale at his house 1 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park, 29 May 1894 (part of lot 93); Harold Rathbone; Charles Fairfax Murray.