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This was the first drawing by Ford Madox Brown to enter the Birmingham collection in 1903. It was one of several gifts from Charles Fairfax Murray received whilst the Museum and Art Gallery was gathering subscriptions to buy the rest of his Pre-Raphaelite drawings collection. It is likely that Fairfax Murray bought the drawing from the sale of Brown's household effects following his death in 1893.Iza Duffus Hardy (1850-1922) was the daughter of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-1878), Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office, and his second wife Lady May Anne Hardy, novelist and travel writer (1824-1891). Iza followed her mother and was also an author publishing over thirty books and numerous short stories in the 1870s and 1880s. The Brown's and the Hardy's were, according to William Michael Rossetti, close friends and he notes that both Mrs Hardy and Iza were 'warmly attached to my wife,' Brown's first daughter Lucy. LM

  • Presented by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1903.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Ford Madox Brown -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
IZA HARDY / FMB 72
Monogram top left Handwritten 1872 Black chalk
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown
83 Grafton Galleries, London 1897 - 1897
 
Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites
19 City of Manchester Art Gallery 1911-09-14 - 1911-11-30
 
Loan Collection of Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
28 National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Gallery, London) 1911-12 - 1912-03
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
51 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 2008-08-27 - 2008-12-14
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
A Catalogue of the House & Decorative Furniture, Works of Art, Books and Effects belonging to the distinguished Painter Ford Madox Brown, which will be sold by Mr T. G. Wharton (No. 1, St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park, 29-31 May 1894)
1894 - p.10
 
Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown
1897 Grafton Galleries, London p. 37
 
Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites
1911 City of Manchester Art Gallery p. 4
 
Loan Collection of Works by English Pre-Raphaelite Painters lent by the Art Gallery Committee of the Birmingham Corporation
1911 National Gallery of British Art, London p. 10
 
Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti 1906 Brown, Langham and Co. Ltd., London vol. 2, p. 491
 
The Art of Ford Madox Brown
Kenneth Bendiner 1998 The Pennsylvania State University press, University Park, Pennsylvania p. 120; repr. fig. 63
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey 2008 D. Giles Limited, London pp. 61, 68; repr. p. 24.

Associated people

Name Type
Miss Iza Duffus Hardy Depicted

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