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Inspiration from Artists week 45 Bonus artist Ford Maddox Brown.
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Welcome to this weekends bonus artist the featured artist is Ford Madox Brown 1821 - 1893.
Ford Madox Brown was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic often Hogarthian ( Hogarth a artist we will feature at another date) versions of the Pre Rapchalite style . (Wikipedia quote ).
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I have always found Ford Maddox Brown the least appealing of the Pre-Rapahelites, I feel his paintings are, for want of a better phrase, a bit brown. The Pretty Baa Lambs, Dixie's first posting being a notable exception, and possibly the only one I might have thought of posting. Even that strikes me as a little unsettling. Despite the artist's insistence that there was no hidden meaning, it has always struck me, and presumably many others, that there was a quasi-religious overtone to the painting,
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I think Wikipedia is way off in describing his style as 'Hogarthian' - there might be something in it in the narrowest sense imaginable, but on the whole he had far more in common with much later painters than Hogarth. His pictures vary hugely in their appeal to me - there are better reproductions of the penultimate one shown: which is stiff, and over-posed, but still interesting. His abilities were clearly huge - even just in mixing and applying colour. But there's something wistfully-soulfully-romanticized-Victorian about it at times; he's turned A Farewell to England, up above, from a sad but compelling picture into something of a choc-box image.
I suppose that's where the Hogarth connection comes from - he did paint, now and then but not often, scenes from the life of the times: but Hogarth was never sentimental, and FMB so often was.