British Artist Dante Gabriel Rosset... Jul 16, 2008
Gabriel showed notable artistic talent as a boy and later studied at The Royal Academy and with painter Ford Madox Brown. Through his training, Rossetti met two other young painters named William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. (Suite101.com)
The saddest story Jun 7, 2008
He inserted the Madox as a tribute to his grandfather, the painter Ford Madox Brown, and subsequent books, including The Good Soldier of 1915, were the work of Ford Madox Hueffer. Finally, he changed the Hueffer to Ford in 1919 (two years after the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas had transformed themselves into Windsors). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Blue Room Oct 30, 2006
She writes, simply and vivaciously, of the life she shared with her four brothers, Barnholt, Vivian, Tom, and Charles; of going to the Criterion Theatre, in Piccadilly Circus, and supper at the grill in the theatre afterward (with a glass of wine to add that touch of diablerie ); of walking a mazelike route of side streets from Canonbury to St. Paul s on Christmas Day; of going on excursions up the Thames to Kew a whole world of small comforts that, so far as I know, was captured in paint... (New Yorker)
Inspired by the sorrow of a million farewells Apr 25, 2006
To watch friends leave Ford Madox Brown used himself and his wife as models for The Last Of England ... Ford Madox Brown's The Last Of England, painted in 1855, is not just a Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece, but regarded as the most iconic work in what has become a forgotten genre: art whose subject matter is, arguably, the greatest exodus in history. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
