Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonne
Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) is known predominantly for his close association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for his masterpiece, The Last of England (1852–55), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard ship taking their last sight of home. Admired by the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Brown was introduced by Rossetti to the artists of the PRB, an association that confirmed Brown’s interests in outdoor light effects and led to the glowing palette of his great...
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Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) is known predominantly for his close association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for his masterpiece, The Last of England (1852–55), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard ship taking their last sight of home. Admired by the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Brown was introduced by Rossetti to the artists of the PRB, an association that confirmed Brown’s interests in outdoor light effects and led to the glowing palette of his great paintings of the 1850s. His interests embraced decorative design, and in the 1860s he was a founding member of the now famous decorating firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.This fully illustrated catalogue provides the first complete coverage of all of Madox Brown’s work (including a section on frame designs contributed by Lynn Roberts). Drawing on the artist’s diary and largely unpublished correspondence with associates and patrons, Mary Bennett provides a fascinating insight into his ideas and practice.
\ Library JournalThis colorful, hefty two-volume set published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art offers detailed descriptions of the works of Ford Madox Brown (1821–93), an artist associated with the British Pre-Raphaelite movement. Bennett (former Keeper of British Art, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) has studied Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites for 50 years and helped revive interest in the movement. The text (complemented by almost 1000 illustrations) is arranged in sections by type of work: paintings and related drawings, portraits, cartoons and designs, book illustrations and prints, furniture, and picture frames. There is also a list of exhibitions of Brown's work, several exhibition reviews, a bibliography, and indexes to the entire catalog, Brown's works, and the provenance of those works. For more general overviews of Brown's life and work, see Angela Thirlwell's Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown and the exhibition catalog Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite. VERDICT Although there is much here for any reader, this catalogue raisonné would best serve advanced scholars of British art and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It is best suited to university and museum libraries focusing on these subjects.—Martha Smith, Elmira Coll. Lib., NY\ \
