Walton-on-the-Naze
1860
Accession number: 1915P97
Oil on canvas.
Width: 419 mm
Height: 317 mm
Information
The artist and his family stayed in Walton-on-the-Naze, a small town on the Essex coast, in August 1859. The gentleman on the left discussing the beauty of the scene is undoubtedly a self-portait of Brown. The lady and the little girl, drying their hair after bathing, are his wife Emma and their daughter Catherine. The scene is concerned with the theme of leisure, and the developing mid-nineteenth century interest in tourism. Londoners could reach the resort by steamer - visible on the horizon. The tourists are contrasted against the world of work represented by the stacks of wheat in the foreground, the smoking factory in the background and the ships in the estuary.LM
- Presented by the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund, 1915.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
| Association | Artist | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Ford Madox Brown | - |
Inscriptions
| Type | Position(s) | Method | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F.Madox Brown 1860 | ||||
| Signature and date | bottom right | Handwritten | 1860 | |
Exhibitions
| Catalogue No. | Venue | Date(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36th Exhibition | |||
| 260 | Liverpool Academy of Arts | 1860 - 1860 | |
| Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 37th | |||
| 670 | Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh | 1863 - 1863 | |
| The Exhibition of Work, other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown | |||
| 27 | 191 Picadilly, London | 1865 - 1865 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | |||
| 10 | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | 1947 - 1947 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces | |||
| 6 | City of Manchester Art Gallery | 1948-06-14 - 1948-08-08 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 6 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | 1948-04-08 - 1948-05-12 | |
| Some Famous Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| - | Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield | 1952 - 1952 | |
| Agnew's Loan Exhibition from Birmingham Art Gallery | |||
| 52 | Agnew's, London | 1957 - 1957 | |
| Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893 | |||
| 36 | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool | 1964 - 1964 | |
| Victorian Painting | |||
| 14 | Ottawa National Gallery, Canada | 1965 - 1965 | |
| Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, 1700-1900, du Musée de Birmingham | |||
| 14 | Musée de Lyon | 1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20 | |
| British Royal Family Exhibition | |||
| 88 | Seibu Department Store, Tokyo | 1967 - 1967 | |
| La Peinture Romantique Anglaise et les Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 31 | Petit Palais, Paris | 1972-01-21 - 1972-04-16 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 103 | Tate Gallery, London | 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature | |||
| 108 | Tate Britain, London | 2004-02-12 - 2004-05-03 | |
| 108 | Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany | 2004-06-12 - 2004-09-19 | |
| 108 | Fundacion 'la Caixa', Madrid, Spain | 2004-10-06 - 2005-01-09 | |
| Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite | |||
| ex. cat. | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | 2008-08-27 - 2008-12-14 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 78 | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm | 2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24 | |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Exhibition of Work, and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown | |||
| Ford Madox Brown | 1865 | Published privately by the artist | p. 11 |
| Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works | |||
| F M Hueffer | 1896 | Longmans, Green and Co., London | pp. 160, 439 |
| Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces | |||
| 1948 | City of Manchester Art Gallery | p. 9 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 1948 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | p. 13 | |
| Pre-Raphaelite Painters | |||
| J Gere, R Ironside | 1948 | Phaidon, London | pp. 24-25, pl. 16 |
| City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham: Catalogue of Paintings | |||
| 1960 | City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham | p. 19 | |
| Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893 | |||
| Mary Bennett | 1964 | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool | p. 24, pl. 7 |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| Timothy Hilton | 1970 | Thames and Hudson, London | p. 150, pl. 108 |
| The Pre-Rapahelite Landscape | |||
| Allen Staley | 1973 | Clarendon Press, Oxford | pp. 42-43, pl. 13b, colour pl. 3 |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| Leslie Parris | 1984 | Tate Gallery Publishing, London(ed.) | p. 178 |
| The Diary of Ford Madox Brown | |||
| Virginia Surtees | 1981 | Yale University Press, New Haven and London for Paul Mellon Centre for British Art | p. 212 |
| Essex Countryside Magazine | |||
| July 1984 | - | pp. 36-37 | |
| Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle | |||
| Raymond Watkinson, Teresa Newman | 1991 | Chatto and Windus, London | pp. 130, 143, repr. pl. 116 |
| The Art of Ford Madox Brown | |||
| Kenneth Bendiner | 1998 | The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvannia | p. 21 ff., repr. Fig. 38 |
| The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| Elizabeth Prettejohn | 2000 | Tate Gallery Publishing, London | pp. 179-81 ff., repr. Fig. 143 |
| Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature | |||
| Allen Staley, Christopher Newall | 2004 | Tate Gallery Publishing, London | p. 190, repr. p. 190 |
| Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite | |||
| Tim Barringer | 2008 | D. Giles Limited | pp. 27-28 |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 2009 | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm | cat.78,p.188; fig.89 | |
Provenance
| Bought by Major Gillum from the artist in 1860 for £84; purchased from the Executors of Mrs Gillum by the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund for 100 Gunineas. |
Associated people
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Ford Madox Brown | Depicted |
| Emma Madox Brown | Depicted |
| Catherine Madox Brown | Depicted |
Associated places
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex | - |
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