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: 25989 Elijah and the Widow's Son (mk46) 1864
Watercolour and bodycolour
heightened with gum arabic
39.4x25.4cm
