Wycliffe Reading his Translation of the Bible - Study for Chaucer1847 Accession number: 1906P729 Pencil on paper. Width: 175 mm Height: 251 mm InformationThis is a full length for the figure of Geoffrey Chaucer who stands on the right in Brown's painting 'Wycliffe reading his Translation of the Bible to John of Gaunt in the Presence of Chaucer and Gower' (1848, oil on canvas, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford). It is one of a pair of drawings in the Birmingham collection which show the figure of Chaucer first nude (1906P736) and then clothed. These studies reveal much about Brown's working process in the late 1840s. He began, as he had learnt in the art academies he attended in Belgium, by making studies of nude models in order to get the correct anatomical details of the pose. He then drew the figure clothed, often using a lay figure to keep the fabric absolutely still. This process, practised since the Renaissance, was believed to make the figure more exact. LM
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