Ford Madox Brown 1869-1878
3' 9 3/4'' x 4'9'(116 x 145 cm)Bequest of Mis Mathilde Blind,1897 Don Juan Discovered by Haydee 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
