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Sunday, February 20, 2011

John Brett - Christmas Morning 1866 (?)


4 comments:

  1. Do you by any chance know anything about the background of this painting? It's so atypical for a piece with such a title.

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  2. Unfortunately not. Its in the Russell-Cotes museum but has no description or notes.

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  3. See Dr C Payne's "John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter" published 2010 by Yale Univesity Press. Plenty of information on p.96 including colour illustration, and also Catalogue entry #531 on p.212. Painted in 1868, at 5 ft x 8 ft it is Brett's second largest work.

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