Work: Ford Madox Brown's Painting and Victorian Life by John A. Walker

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Work: Ford Madox Brown's Painting and Victorian Life by John A. Walker

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132 pages. Hardback. Book dimensions 290x215mm Ford Madox Brown's fascinating realist painting entitled Work takes as its heroes a group of labourers laying water pipes in The Mount, Hampstead. This fully illustrated book tells the story behind Brown's masterpiece - its sources in popular art, its composition and its 'message', as well as its critical reception at the time and its impact on art in the twentieth century.