Oil paint on mahogany
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FG Stephens
Bequeathed by H.F. Stephens 1932
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artist, painter
arts and entertainment
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Stephens, Frederic George
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<p>This is F G Stephens. He was a friend of the artists Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown from their studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He modelled for many of their paintings and joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. This portrait was made before the formation of the brotherhood and it is much more loosely painted than strictly Pre-Raphaelite works.Stephens later gave up painting to work as a critic and writer. His reviews helped to advance the cause of contemporary British art and were particularly favourable to his former Pre-Raphaelite colleagues.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
12 July 2003 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
12 July 2003 – 28 September 2003
2003-09-28
2003-07-12
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
25 October 2003 – 15 February 2004
2004-02-15
2003-10-25
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin, New Zealand)
http://www.dunedin.art.museum
14 May 2004 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
2004-05-14
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2003-07-12
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate Collection
Tate partnerships & programmes
1 August 2005 – 30 July 2007
2007-07-30
1 August 2005
2005-08-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-08-01
The Pre-Raphaelites
Collection based display
11 October 2008 – 6 September 2009
2009-09-06
11 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-11
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
2008-10-11
Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision
Loan-out
14 December 2018 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
19 June 2019 – 6 October 2019
2019-10-06
2019-06-19
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
13 May 2021 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
2021-05-13
Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
2018-12-14
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Tate partnerships & programmes
F.G. Stephens
support: 203 × 175 mm
frame: 360 × 330 × 60 mm
Bequeathed by H.F. Stephens 1932
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<p>Frederic Stephens persuaded the Pre-Raphaelite model Annie Miller (seen in Awakening Conscience), to sit for his modern version of a Biblical Madonna and Child. Stephens introduced tragedy with clues about the Crimean War (1853–56). The child stops playing with his military toys to reach towards his mother as she reacts to a letter bringing bad news from the conflict. Stephens never finished the picture.</p>
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adults artist, painter arts and entertainment critic individuals: male inscriptions literary man monogram named individuals people portraits Stephens, Frederic George symbols and personifications work and occupations