Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

The subject was taken from the story of Sir Tristram and La Belle Iseult as told by Malory in the 'Morte d'Arthur.' The design was originally conceived in September 1862 for a stained glass window produced by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. The window was one of thirteen illustrating the story for the entrance hall of Harden Grange, near Bingley, the home of Walter Dunlop, a Bradford merchant. In 1863 Brown used the composition for a watercolour and in 1864 he produced this version in oil for George Rae.LM

Presented by the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund, 1916.
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Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Ford Madox Brown	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)
Sir Tristram/ How he was traytoursly slayne with a trenchant glayve by Kinge Marke, and how the Lady La Beale Isoud threw herself fauning on his bodye and soe died
Inscription	frame	-	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
The Exhibition of Work, and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown
32	191 Piccadilly, London	1865 - 1865

British Art Fifty Years Ago
500	Whitechapel Art Gallery, London	1905 - 1905

Pre-Raphaelite Art
7	National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide	1962-03 - 1962-03
7	Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth	1962-04 - 1962-05
7	The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart	1962-06 - 1962-07
7	National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne	1962-07 - 1962-08
7	Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane	1962-08 - 1962-09
7	Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney	1962-10 - 1962-10

British Royal Family Exhibition
90	Seibu Department Store, Tokyo	1967 - 1967

William Morris and the Middle Ages
142	Whitworth Art Gallery	1984-09-28 - 1984-12-8

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
The Exhibition of Work, and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown	1865	Privately published by the artist.	pp. 13-14

Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works
F M Hueffer	1896	Longmans, Green and Co., London	pp. 197, 200, 418, 440; repr. op. p. 200

British Art Fifty Years Ago
	1905	Whitechapel Art Gallery, London	cat. no. 500

Pre-Raphaelite Diaries and Letters
William Michael Rossetti	1900	Hurst and Blackett Limited, London	pp. 111, 114

City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham: Catalogue of Paintings
	1960	City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham	p. 21

Pre-Raphaelite Art
Daniel Thomas	1962	The State Art Galleries of Australia	p. 11

Apollo
Leonee Ormond	January 1967	-	p. 55

The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle
A Charles Sewter	1975	Yale University Press, New Haven forThe Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art	vol. 2, pp. 26-27

Morris and Company in Cambridge
Duncan Robinson, Stephen Wildman	1980	Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge	pp. 71-72

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Art Services International, Virginia	repr. Fig. 56

The Art of Ford Madox Brown
Kenneth Bendiner	1998	The Pennsylvania State University Press	p. 25 ff., repr. Fig. 42