Ford Madox Brown 1856
Oil on wood,17.2 x 16.5 cm
(6 3/4 x 6 1/2 in)
Wightwick Manor,West Midlands (mk63) William Michael Rossetti 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
