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Ford Madox Brown had already pioneered a style of painting which came to be known as Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. His beautifully observed landscapes anticipated the open-air effects of the Impressionists. His art was anti-academic, rejecting easy solutions, prettiness, and conventional Victorian formulae. He depicted children without sentimentality and poor people without condescension. This major monograph provides a general introduction to Brown's art based on new research; all of his important paintings are included, each one is illustrated and described.
‘First class’
- Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph
‘Engaged, perverse... and quirkily humorous, [the catalogue] merits a distinctive place in Victorian art history.’
- Jan Marsh, TLS
Imprint: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Hardback
ISBN: 9780856677007
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011
Number of Pages: 336
Height: 274
Width: 216
Ford Madox Brown had already pioneered a style of painting which came to be known as Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. His beautifully observed landscapes anticipated the open-air effects of the Impressionists. His art was anti-academic, rejecting easy solutions, prettiness, and conventional Victorian formulae. He depicted children without sentimentality and poor people without condescension. This major monograph provides a general introduction to Brown's art based on new research; all of his important paintings are included, each one is illustrated and described.
‘First class’
- Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph
‘Engaged, perverse... and quirkily humorous, [the catalogue] merits a distinctive place in Victorian art history.’
- Jan Marsh, TLS
Imprint: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
HardbackISBN: 9780856677007
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011
Number of Pages: 336
Height: 274
Width: 216