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Appendix I

Virginia Surtees (Editor)

The Diary of Ford Madox Brown

Appendix I

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Virginia Surtees (Editor)

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Appendix I

Letter from D.G. Rossetti to Ford Madox Brown (see p.36), (D.G. Rossetti: His Family Letters with a Memoir ed. W.M. Rossetti, vol.i, 1895, pp. 116–17).

50 Charlotte Street, Portland Place.
March, 1848

Sir,

I am a student in the Antique School of the Royal Academy. Since the first time I ever went to an exhibition (which was several years ago, and when I saw a picture of yours from Byron’s Giaour) I have always listened with avidity if your name happened to be mentioned, and rushed first of all to your number in the Catalogue. The Parisina, the Study in the Manner of the Early Masters, Our Lady of Saturday-night, and the other glorious works you have exhibited, have successively raised my admiration, and kept me standing on the same spot for fabulous lengths of time. The outline from your Abstract Representation of Justice which appeared in one of the Illustrated Papers constitutes, together with an engraving after that great painter Von Holst, the sole pictorial adornment of my room. And, as for the Mary Queen of Scots, if ever I do anything in the art, it will certainly be attributable in a great degree to the constant study of that work.

It is not therefore to be wondered at if, wishing to obtain some knowledge of colour (which I have as yet scarcely attempted), the hope suggests itself that you may possibly admit pupils to profit by your invaluable assistance. If, such being the case, you would do me the honour to inform me what your terms would be for six months’ instruction, I feel convinced that I should then have some chance in the Art.

I remain, Sir, very truly yours,
Gabriel C. Rossetti.

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BOOKThe Diary of Ford Madox Brown

Virginia Surtees (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00350

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23533

Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) was perhaps the most important and influential associate of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The diary that he began in 1847 and kept for some twenty years appears here in a complete and fully annotated edition. It is an absorbing and moving chronicle of the life of an impoverished artist striving for acknowledgement and success in mid-nineteenth-century London.

Madox Brown’s character was moulded by the harsh circumstances of his life. Without money and seemingly without recognition, a widower with a young child and later a second wife and children, he seemed to many a taciturn and suspicious figure and his diary demonstrates his antagonism toward some of his contemporaries, notably John Ruskin, John Everett Millais, and the London art trade. But he also speaks in revealing detail of his working life and recounts with enthusiasm his relationships with friends and associates—particularly William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Siddal.

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Virginia Surtees (Editor)

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Print publication date May 1981 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300027433

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