Baby Arthur Gabriel Madox Brown
Artist
Ford Madox Brown
(English, 1821-1892)
CultureEnglish
DateJuly 19, 1857
MediumPencil on paper
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/2 x 9 in. (14 x 22.9 cm)
InscribedLL: Signed with the artist's monogram. Inscribed in pencil along the upper edge: "ARTHUR GABRIEL MADOX BROWN, 19 July 57". Inscribed in pencil on the mat: "Bought from Dorcester Gallery, 1936".
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number50.48.31
Not on view
DescriptionPencil drawing of the artist's infant son.ProvenanceWith Leicester Galleries, 1921, and thence sold, 1936; Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, N.J., d. 1938; Mrs. Platt,1938-49, sold Spark, New York, 1949; Chrysler Museum Purchase, Norfolk, Va., 1950. Exhibition History"Catalogue of the Exhibition and Sale of The Sale of The Dan Fellows Platt collection of Drawings and Water-Colors by Artists from the 17th to the 20th Centuries," Victor D. Spark Studio, New York City, May - October, 1949. (Exh. cat. no. 40) "Old Master Drawings, Fall Exhibition, Norfolk Society of Arts," Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, November - December, 1950. (Exh. cat. no. 96) "American Drawing Annual XIII: Pre-Raphaelite Drawings from Museums Collections," The Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis and the Gallery of Modern Art, New York City, 1964. (Exh. cat. no. 5). "Victorian Artists in England," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1965. (Exh. cat. no. 10). "The Victorian Rebellion," Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, September 12 - October 26, 1971. (Exh. cat. no. 3) "One Hundred Drawings in The Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, March 2 - May 6, 1979. Published ReferencesEric M. Zafran, _One Hundred Drawings in the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1979, no. 54, p. 24; Ill., n.p. Arthur Marks, "Ford Madox Brown's `Take Your Son Sir'," ARTS MAGAZINE, Jan. 1980, pg. 136. Mary Bennett, _Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné_, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 377, fig. B22.
