tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post2400519124173632876..comments2024-01-11T22:43:16.003+00:00Comments on Pre Raphaelite Influenced Art: Ford Madox Brown - 'Take Your Son, Sir!'Hermeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post-18914265868295901622014-05-01T18:39:08.325+01:002014-05-01T18:39:08.325+01:00I saw it this afternoon at the exhibition here in ...I saw it this afternoon at the exhibition here in Torino, Italy, and the audioguide said that it was begun as a portrait of the painter's lover, and her head was originally laughing (so that could explain the incongruence you founf in the sources about the woman's name. It said it was abandoned after the death of the child and that is formed of 7 pieces of canvas.rbernasconehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13296817867705666294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post-7948282628932702622010-11-02T11:31:36.334+00:002010-11-02T11:31:36.334+00:00Thank you for that, I'm sure you're right....Thank you for that, I'm sure you're right. I envy you actually seeing it.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700894621471344950.post-8278753938334097842010-11-02T09:08:22.314+00:002010-11-02T09:08:22.314+00:00I've found this post by accident when I was tr...I've found this post by accident when I was trying to find an image of the picture. <br /><br />I saw it at the WA Art Gallery during a pre Raphaelite exhibition. There wasn't any extra paper that I could see - the marks are sketch marks. The theme was correct, but during the modelling, their son died. Brown was so distressed he never completed the picture.Sam Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141049964749377481noreply@blogger.com