Who Painted This? #45

Who painted this? #45

I delight to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than inward the type of paintings which rarely larn painted past times contemporary artists - carefully constructed scenes recording everyday life.

There's an interesting even behind this painting.  I wonder if y'all tin dismiss abide by out what it is.

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Who Painted This #44 - The Answer

Chaucer at the courtroom of Edward III past times Ford Madox Brown
Art Gallery of New South Wales - Ground Floor
Screenshot - courtesy of Google Art Project

• Title of the artwork:  Chaucer at the courtroom of Edward III
• Name of the creative mortal who created this artwork: Ford Madox Brown
• Date it was created:  from 1847 until 1851
• Media used: oil on canvas; Height: 3,910 mm (153.94 in). Width: 3,150 mm (124.02 in).
• Where it lives now: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

This is

Geoffrey Chaucer reading the "Legend of Custance" to Edward III together with his court, at the palace of Sheen, on the anniversary of the Black Prince's forty-fifth birthday

Ford Madox Ford was never officially a fellow member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. merely was sympathetic to their ambitions.

This is a large tableau rather than a ikon pure together with simple.  For i affair there's goose egg uncomplicated nearly it!  It also took rather a long fourth dimension to pigment - starting inward 1857 together with finishing inward 1851

It was painted on a white dry soil using what are described every bit pure colours.  The lower percentage of the ikon has been cleaned.

The chap inward greyish who is pretending to endure Chaucer inward the ikon is genuinely Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  Other members of the Pre-Raphaelite grouping together with associates seem every bit tike characters inward the painting.

While the master is inward Australia, a written report for the operate is owned by The Tate Gallery inward London, exact inward item merely much reduced inward scale.

The Tate Gallery inward London possesses a replica of the work, exact inward item merely much reduced inward scale.

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #41? Congratulations to Jane Gardiner (Glasgow Painter) who was get-go amongst the shout of the creative mortal together with all the other available details.

Alyson Champ would guide maintain been the get-go if she'd constitute the master rather than the study!

Others who got all the right answers - or constitute the re-create - were:

• Bernadette Madden 
• Patrick Connors
• Barbara Jackson 
• Angelique 
• Caroline Alexander is going to boot herself when she realises how close together with notwithstanding then far she was 
• Fred Bennett - also caught out past times the Tate study 
• Colours together with Textures - I loved the explanation of how she got there. Those hubbies come upwards inward handy!

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