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TitleThe Hayfield

Creator nameBrown, Ford Madox

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1855–1856

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil paint on mahogany

LocationTate, London

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/brown-the-hayfield-t01920

Accession numberT01920

SubjectsPre-RaphaelitesHarvestingLandscape painting, British--19th centuryPainting, Victorian--Great BritainAgricultural laborers in artSelf-portraits, British

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I. Art, Religion, and Labour

Tim Barringer

Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain

A CHAOS OF BODIES, male and female, young and old, confronts the viewer of Ford Madox Brown’s great secular altarpiece, Work (fig. 8), just as the language of the body permeates the sonnet published to accompany its first exhibition. The setting is the elegant suburban prospect of The Mount,...

Author

Tim Barringer

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.21-81

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Victorian--Great BritainBrown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Pre-RaphaelitesLabor in art--Great Britain--History--19th centuryVisual culture--History--19th centuryPainting, British--19th century

1855

Virginia Surtees (Editor)

The Diary of Ford Madox Brown

3rd Jany. Up at 9, shower bath, out with dear Emma for a short walk, got chilled so took one by myself to get warm...

Author

Virginia Surtees (Editor)

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.113-160

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00350.6

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Chapter subject tags:Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Artists--DiariesPainting, British--19th centuryPainting, Victorian--Great Britain

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