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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
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Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Ford Madox Brown |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
F. Madox Brown |
Signature |
bottom left |
Painted |
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Red paint. |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
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79 |
British Institute |
1855 - 1855 |
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International Exhibition |
533 |
South Kensington, London |
1862 - 1862 |
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The Exhibition of Work and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown |
13 |
191 Piccadilly, London |
1865 - 1865 |
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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 |
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Victorian Life |
92 |
Leicester Galleries, London |
1937 - 1937 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
5 |
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
1948-04-08 - 1948-05-12 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
7 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1947 - 1947 |
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Agnew's Loan Exhibition from Birmingham Art Gallery |
54 |
Agnew's, London |
1957 - 1957 |
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Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893 |
28 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1964 - 1964 |
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Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, 1700-1900, du Musée de Birmingham |
15 |
Musée des Beaux Arts Lyon |
1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
51 |
Tate Gallery, London |
1984 - 1984 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
2 |
Hong Kong Museum of Art |
1984-10-20 - 1984-12-02 |
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Ar Treasures of England: The Regional Collections |
129 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1998-06-22 - 1998-04-13 |
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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 |
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British Vision, Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950 |
196 |
Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Belguim |
2007 - 2008 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
31 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
08-08-23 - 08-14-12 |
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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 |
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Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown |
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1897 |
Grafton Galleries, London |
- |
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Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works |
F M Hueffer |
1896 |
Longmans, Green and Co., London |
pp. 82-83ff. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Diaries and Letters |
William Michael Rossetti |
1900 |
Hurst and Blackett Limited, London |
pp. 111-14ff. |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
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1948 |
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
p. 13 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Painters |
J Gere, R Ironside |
1948 |
Phaidon, Oxford |
p. 23 |
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Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle |
Raymond Watkinson, Teresa Newman |
1991 |
Chatto and Windus, London |
p. 4ff. |
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Apollo |
Julius Byrant |
July 1997 |
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pp. 41-43 |
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The Art of Ford Madox Brown |
Kenneth Bendiner |
1998 |
The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvannia |
p. 21ff. |
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The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites |
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2000 |
Tate Gallery Publishing, London |
p. 89 |
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British Vision, Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950 |
Hoozee Robert |
2007 |
Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium |
p. 276; repr. p. 276 |
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Creative Quarters: The Art World in London 1700-2000 |
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2001 |
Museum of London |
pp. 78-79 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey |
2008 |
D. Giles Limited, London |
pp. 56, repr. p. 21 |
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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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