List of paintings by Ford Madox Brown explained

This is a list of paintings by the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown.

1830s and 1840s

Image Name Year Current Location Ref
The Reverend F H S Pendleton 1837Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-612
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots 1839–41Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchesterhttp://gallerysearch.ds.man.ac.uk/Detail/4568
Mrs James Madox1840 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford https://web.archive.org/web/20071009200218/http://www.ashmolean.org/php/makepage.php?&db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=Brown&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=1&what=Search&cpos=3&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25
Dr Primrose and his Daughters 1840 https://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-602
Manfred on the Jungfrau1840–61Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-654
The Prisoner of Chillon 1844Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-570
Out of Town 1843–58Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-5521
The Bromley Family 1844Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-5155
Lucy Madox Brown1844
Ascension1844Forbes Magazine collection, New YorkListed at Bridgeman Art Library.
The Body of Harold brought before William the Conqueror 1844–61Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-432
The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry 1845–51Ashmolean Museum, Oxfordhttps://web.archive.org/web/20071028185407/http://www.ashmolean.org/php/makepage.php?&db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=Brown&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=1&what=Search&cpos=2&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25
Portrait of a Boy1845Birmingham Museum and Art Galleryhttp://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=15003&index=7&total=97&view=viewSearchItem
Millie Smith 1846Walker Art Gallery, Liverpoolhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070929120514/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/millie_smith.asp
Seraph's Watch1846
Mr James Bamford1846
Chaucer at the Court of Edward III 1847–51Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.(See later replica (1856–68) in Tate Britain, London)https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/703/.
John Wycliffe Reading His Translation of the Bible to John of Gaunt 1847–48Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage, BradfordBridgeman Art Library.
Oure Ladye of Good Children or Oure Ladye of Saturday Night 1847Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1594&searchid=9776
View from Shorn Ridgway, Kent 1849National Museum of Wales, Cardiffhttp://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_item&item=298
Portrait of William Shakespeare 1849Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-227
Lear and Cordelia 1849Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1599&searchid=9776
Self-Portraitc.1850https://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5396357

1850s

Image Name Year Current Location Ref
The Pretty Baa-Lambs 1851–1859Birmingham Museum & Art Galleryhttp://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1956P9
Take your Son, Sir! 1851–92 (unfinished)Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1608&searchid=9776
1851–55Walker Art Gallery, Liverpoolhttps://web.archive.org/web/20040423011526/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/brown.asp
An English Autumn Afternoon 1852–55
Jesus Washing Peter's Feet 1852–56 (Oil painting) Tate Britain, London (See also watercolour (1876) in Manchester Art Gallery)http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1581&searchid=9776
Work1852–1865Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-82
circa 1853
The Brent at Hendon 1854Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1603&searchid=9776
Carrying Corn 1854–55Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1611&searchid=9776
The Last of England 1855Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. (See also oil version (1860) in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and watercolour (1864-5) in Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1891P24
Windermere 1855Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpoolhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070211114831/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/windermere.asp
The Hayfield 1855–56 Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1618&searchid=9776
Chaucer at the Court of Edward III1856–1868 Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1582&searchid=9776
Stages of Cruelty 1856 (watercolour)Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1610&searchid=9776
Stages of Cruelty 1856–90 (oil)Manchester Art Gallery (See also 1856 watercolour sketch above)https://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-568
Hampstead - A Sketch from Nature 1857Delaware Art MuseumListed at Bridgeman Art Library.

1860s

Image Name Year Current Location Ref
Walton-on-the-Naze 1860Birmingham Museum & Art Galleryhttp://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1915P97
The English Boy 1860Manchester Art Galleryhttp://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=de31f2f7d791dca7bf2ad6eebc93daa5&irn=3719&r=1281661257
The Irish Girl 1860Yale Center for British Arthttps://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669297
The Last of England 1860 (oil)Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071215030738/http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?&priref=809&_functon_=xslt&_limit_=10
Death of Sir Tristram 1863Cecil Higgins Gallery, Bedfordhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070927174811/http://www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org/paintings/brown%20m.htm
Death of Sir Tristram 1863Birmingham Museum and Art Galleryhttp://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=4106&index=14&total=97&view=viewSearchItem
Mauvais Sujet (Writing Lesson) 1863Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1600&searchid=9776
James Leathart1863
Elijah and the Widow's Son 1864Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
(See also 1868 watercolour located in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1912P23
King Rene's Honeymoon 1864 (watercolour)Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1601&searchid=9776
King Rene's Honeymoon 1864 (oil)National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
(See watercolour version (1864) above)
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_item&item=297
St Oswald and St Aidan 1864Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpoolhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070211114611/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/st_oswald.asp
The Baptism of St. Oswald c.1864Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpoolhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070211115713/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/baptism_st_oswald.asp
The Last of England 1864–65 (watercolour)Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1598&searchid=9776
The Coat of Many Colours 1866 (oil)Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (See watercolour version (1867) belowhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070211115913/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/coat_of_many_colours.asp.
The Coat of Many Colours 1867 (watercolour)Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1609&searchid=9776
Cordelia’s Portion 1866–72Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. (See second version (1867–75) below)https://web.archive.org/web/20110608052307/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/cordeliasportion.asp.
Cordelia’s Portion 1867–75Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071215030733/http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?&priref=808&_function_=xslt&_limit_=10
The Entombment 1866–78 (watercolour)National Gallery of Victoria, Melbournehttps://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/26962/
The Nosegay1865Ashmolean Museum, Oxfordhttp://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/46926
The Nosegay1867Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. (See version of this painting in the Ashmolean Museum above)https://web.archive.org/web/20070211114311/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/nosegay.asp
Romeo and Juliet 1867 (watercolour)Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchesterhttp://gallerysearch.ds.man.ac.uk/Detail/735
The Traveller 1868Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-11977
Elijah and the Widow's Son 1868 (watercolour)Victoria and Albert Museumhttps://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=&offset=0&limit=15&narrow=&extrasearch=&q=ford+madox+brown&commit=Search&quality=0&objectnamesearch=&placesearch=&after=&before=&namesearch=&materialsearch=&mnsearch=&locationsearch=
May Memories 1869private collectionhttp://www.victorianweb.org/painting/fmb/paintings/3.html
The Finding of Don Juan by Haidee 1869 (watercolour) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (See 1869 oil version below)https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/26963/
The Finding of Don Juan by Haidee 1869 (oil) Musée d'Orsay, Parishttp://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/resultat-collection.html?no_cache=1&S=0&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bzoom%5D=0&tx_damzoom_pi1%5BxmlId%5D=001463&tx_damzoom_pi1%5Bback%5D=en%2Fcollections%2Findex-of-works%2Fresultat-collection.html%3Fno_cache%3D1%26S%3D0%26zsz%3D9

1870s

Image Name Year Current Location Ref
Romeo and Juliet 1870 (oil)Delaware Art Museum. (See watercolour version (1867) in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
The Corsair's Return 1870–71Delaware Art MuseumListed at Bridgeman Art Library.
The Dream of Sardanapalus 1871Delaware Art MuseumListed at Bridgeman Art Library
The Convalescent1872 (pastel)Metropolitan Museum of Art (Other versions in City Museum and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery)https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/340945
The Convalescent1872 (pastel)http://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=9715&index=0&total=97&view=viewSearchItem
Miss Iza Duffus Hardy1872 (pastel)Birmingham Museum & Art Galleryhttps://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/explore-art/items/1904P498/portrait-of-miss-iza-duffus-hardy
Cromwell on his Farm 1873-4Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpoolhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070211115946/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/animals/cromwellonhisfarm.asp
Portrait of Mr and Mrs David Davies1873
Oliver Madox Brown on Deathbed1874
Byron's Dream 1874Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-5473
La Rose de l'enfante (Child with Rose)1876Harvard Art Museumshttps://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/230454
Jesus Washing Peter's Feet 1876 (watercolour)Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-105959
Self-Portrait 1877Fogg Art Museum, Harvardhttps://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230034?position=0
Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois 1877Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-240
William Tell's Son1877https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/ford-madox-brown-1821-1893-tells-son-4051922-details.aspx

1880s

Image Name Year Current Location Ref
Portrait of Madeline Scott 1883Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-3723
Platt Lane 1884Tate Britain, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1615&searchid=9776
Portrait of Charles Rowley (1839-1933) 1885Manchester Art Galleryhttps://manchesterartgallery.org/collections/title/?mag-object-105966
Spinning 1887http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=de31f2f7d791dca7bf2ad6eebc93daa5&irn=3442&r=518028868
Weaving 1887Royal Jubilee Exhibitionhttp://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=de31f2f7d791dca7bf2ad6eebc93daa5&irn=3440&r=518028868
Commerce 1887Royal Jubilee Exhibitionhttp://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=de31f2f7d791dca7bf2ad6eebc93daa5&irn=3443&r=518028868
Shipping 1887http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=de31f2f7d791dca7bf2ad6eebc93daa5&irn=3441&r=518028868
Corn1887Royal Jubilee Exhibition
Wool 1887http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=de31f2f7d791dca7bf2ad6eebc93daa5&irn=3440&r=518028868
Iron1887Royal Jubilee Exhibition
Coal1887Royal Jubilee Exhibition
Lady Rivers and her Children 1887–89Ashmolean Museum, Oxfordhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110716083943/http://www.ashmolean.org/php/makepage.php?&db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=Brown&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=1&what=Search&cpos=5&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25

The Manchester Murals (1879–1893)

See also