Call Number:

C1018

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Ford Madox Brown Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1854-1893 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893

Form:

Correspondence--England--19th century.

Abstract:

Consists of selected correspondence of the English painter Ford Madox Brown with his daughter and several art friends and colleagues.

Ford Madox Brown, English painter, was born in Calais, France, and trained in Antwerp, Paris, and Rome before returning to England in 1845. Brown became friendly with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who studied briefly with him in 1848, and with other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His best-known paintings are The Last of England (1852-1855) and Work (1852-1863).

The collection contains correspondence of Brown with his daughter, Lucy, and with Frederic Shields, Alexander Ireland, Charles Augustus Howell, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, Mr. Prunell, Mr. Forman, and the Dalziel Brothers regarding his artwork. Additional letters to Harry Buxton Forman and others concern the memorial fountain to Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Cheyne Walk.

Arranged by accession number.