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After seeing this painting exhibited at the British Institute in 1855 Ruskin commented: 'What made you take such a very ugly subject? It was a pity, for there was some nice painting in it.' Brown replied: 'Because it lay out of a back window.'Many of the 'modern' subjects Brown chose to paint were inspired by places and events from his own life. This scene is a view of Hampstead from the window of Brown's lodgings and reveals Brown's interest in capturing the light on an autumn afternoon. It was begun in October 1852 but took two years to complete. There are relatively few existing studies for Brown's landscapes and though there are several landscape paintings in Birmingham's collections there is only one drawing relating to landscapes in the collection.LM

  • Presented by the Public Picture Gallery Fund, 1916.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Ford Madox Brown -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
F. Madox Brown
Signature bottom left Painted - Red paint.
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
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79 British Institute 1855 - 1855
 
International Exhibition
533 South Kensington, London 1862 - 1862
 
The Exhibition of Work and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown
13 191 Piccadilly, London 1865 - 1865
 
Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown
59 Grafton Galleries, London 1897 - 1897
 
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523 Wrexham 1876 - 1876
 
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899a Edinburgh 1886 - 1886
 
Victorian Life
92 Leicester Galleries, London 1937 - 1937
 
The Pre-Raphaelites
5 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1948-04-08 - 1948-05-12
 
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
7 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 1947 - 1947
 
Agnew's Loan Exhibition from Birmingham Art Gallery
54 Agnew's, London 1957 - 1957
 
Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893
28 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1964 - 1964
 
Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, 1700-1900, du Musée de Birmingham
15 Musée des Beaux Arts Lyon 1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20
 
The Pre-Raphaelites
51 Tate Gallery, London 1984 - 1984
 
Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
2 Hong Kong Museum of Art 1984-10-20 - 1984-12-02
 
Ar Treasures of England: The Regional Collections
129 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1998-06-22 - 1998-04-13
 
Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature
29 Tate Britain, London 2004-02-12 - 2004-05-03
29 Altes Museum 2004-06-12 - 2004-09-19
29 Fundacion 'la Caixa' 2004-10-06 - 2005-01-09
 
British Vision, Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950
196 Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Belguim 2007 - 2008
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
31 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 08-08-23 - 08-14-12
 

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 pp. 7-8
 
Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown
1897 Grafton Galleries, London -
 
Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works
F M Hueffer 1896 Longmans, Green and Co., London pp. 82-83ff.
 
Pre-Raphaelite Diaries and Letters
William Michael Rossetti 1900 Hurst and Blackett Limited, London pp. 111-14ff.
 
The Pre-Raphaelites
1948 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London p. 13
 
Pre-Raphaelite Painters
J Gere, R Ironside 1948 Phaidon, Oxford p. 23
 
Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle
Raymond Watkinson, Teresa Newman 1991 Chatto and Windus, London p. 4ff.
 
Apollo
Julius Byrant July 1997 - pp. 41-43
 
The Art of Ford Madox Brown
Kenneth Bendiner 1998 The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvannia p. 21ff.
 
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
2000 Tate Gallery Publishing, London p. 89
 
British Vision, Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950
Hoozee Robert 2007 Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium p. 276; repr. p. 276
 
Creative Quarters: The Art World in London 1700-2000
2001 Museum of London pp. 78-79
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey 2008 D. Giles Limited, London pp. 56, repr. p. 21
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
Tim Barringer 2008 D. Giles Limited, London p. 27

Provenance

Sent to auction at Phillips by the artist on its completion in 1854; Robert Dickinson; Seddon; the artist; George Rae; purchased by the Public Picture fund in 1915 for £210

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LONDON -

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