Monday, February 16, 2009

Ford Madox Brown - An English Autumn afternoon

http://pre-raphs.bmag.org.uk/artists/a-e/ford-madox-brown.html
http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=ford-madox-brown&page=2
1852-4
oil on canvas
Birmingham
61.1 x 134.6 cm. His largest landscape, painted from the back window of his lodgings in Hampstead. It was sold at auction for 9 gns (the frame cost him 4!). He said it was set at 3pm in October. Ruskin thought it 'ugly'.







[self portrait]

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