Ford Madox Brown belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Ford Madox Brown as British painter (1821–1893).
Ford Madox Brown was born at Calais in 1821. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, designer and artist.
His recorded movement is pre-raphaelite brotherhood.
Among his best-known works are Work, Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois and The Last of England. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Ford Madox Brown died in 1893, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Work
- Notable work: Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois
- Notable work: The Last of England
- Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
