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The Body of Harold brought before William the ConquerorFord Madox Brown
Date: c. 1843-44
Materials: Pencil, pen and brown ink
In 1844 Brown submitted a large-scale cartoon, for which these are studies, in the competition for fresco decoration of the new Houses of Parliament, which stipulated:
"subjects from British History, or from the works of Spenser, Shakespeare or Milton".
It attracted some attention, but failed to win him a commission, the allocations going to William Dyce, C. W. Cope, J.C. Horsley and Daniel Maclise. He later worked up an oil sketch into a finished painting, sold to the collector Thomas Plint as 'Wilhelmus Conquistator' (Manchester City Art Gallery). |
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