Ford Madox Brown
1821-1893
English painter and designer. The son of a retired ship's purser who had settled at Calais, Brown received an academic training under Albert Gregorius (1774-1853) at Bruges, under Pieter van Hanselaere (1786-1862) at Ghent and under Baron Gustaf Wappers at the Academie in Antwerp (1837-9). He moved to Paris in 1840, married the following year and studied independently of the ateliers
ID: 28180 The Expulsion of the Danes from Manchester 910 AD 1879-93
fresco 145.9 x 317.1cm
(57 1/2 x 125 in)Great Hall Manchester Town Hall (mk63)
