Graphite and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rossetti and his Friends
Collection
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Ford Madox Brown being Patronized by Holman Hunt
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
adults
architecture
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
beard
body
boy
Brown, Ford Madox
Brown, Oliver Madox
caricature
children
chimney
condescension
easel
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
father
features
fine arts and music
Hunt, William Holman
individuals: male
interiors
leisure and pastimes
man
named groups
named individuals
objects
painting
people
playing
portraits
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
recreational activities
social comment
society
son
studio
top
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
toys and models
tree
window
work and occupations
workspaces
paper unique graphite watercolour
Ford Madox Brown being Patronized by Holman Hunt
support: 362 × 397 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-ford-madox-brown-being-patronized-by-holman-hunt-a01043" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01043</span></a>	[from] ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS (TWENTY-THREE DRAWINGS) 1916–17 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-d-g-rossetti-precociously-manifesting-that-queer-indifference-to-politics-a01038" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01038</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-the-name-of-dante-gabriel-rossetti-is-heard-for-the-first-time-in-the-western-a01060" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01060</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Mrs Charles Hunter; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries; from whom purchased by Sir Hugh Walpole 1921.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, pp.146–50.</p>
<p>A series of twenty-three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>, variously dated 1916 and 1917. Fifteen were lent by Mrs Charles Hunter to the <i>Modern Loan Exhibition</i>, Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98); the complete series was first exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (1), in the order in which they are given here, again as <i>Rossetti and his Friends</i>. They were published in book form by Heinemann in 1922 as <i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, possibly an allusion to Rossetti's <i>Dante and His Circle</i>, the second edition of his translations from the early Italian poets, published in 1874. The complete series of drawings was further exhibited in <i><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>Paintings</span></a> and Drawings of the 1860 Period</i>, Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336), and was on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938. For further details, see below (artists represented in the collection will be fully discussed in the appropriate section of the catalogue).</p>
<p>(vi) Inscr. ‘Ford Madox Brown being patronized by Holman Hunt.’ b.c. and ‘Max 1916’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 14 1/4×15 5/8 (36×39·5).
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Grosvenor Gallery, November 1917 (98, 4); Leicester Galleries, September 1921 (6); Tate Gallery, April–July 1923 (336, 6); on loan to the Tate Gallery from June 1938.
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Rossetti and His Circle</i>, 1922, pl.10 (in colour).
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-22T00:00:00
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adults architecture artist, painter arts and entertainment beard body boy Brown, Ford Madox Brown, Oliver Madox caricature children chimney condescension easel emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family father features fine arts and music Hunt, William Holman individuals: male interiors leisure and pastimes man named groups named individuals objects painting people playing portraits Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood recreational activities social comment society son studio top townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features toys and models tree window work and occupations workspaces