| Title: | 1904P447 Portrait of Emma Madox Brown |
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| Description: |
1904P447 Portait of Emma Madox Brown, 1853 Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Executed less than a month after the wedding of Ford Madox Brown and Emma Hill on 5 April 1853, it remained in Brown's possession for the rest of his life. Rossetti, along with Thomas Seddon, had been a witness at the wedding. Emma came from a poor farming background, but had already modelled for her future husband's paintings 'The Last of England' and 'The Pretty Baa-Lambs'. Here Rossetti controls his use of the pen to capture a closely-observed appearance that is more about realism than flattery. He had been a pupil of Madox Brown in 1848. See also image of later portrait 1904P448. |
| Keywords: |
Art Movement/ Pre-Raphaelite, Birmingham Museums Trust/Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Drawing, Ink, Women, Sketch, Portrait, Female, Pen |
| Usage Rights: | Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain. Optional attribution: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 |
| Height: | 555, 321, 126 |
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| Width: | 403, 215, 100 |
| Unit: | mm, mm, mm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903. |
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