Title
Chaucer at the court of Edward III
1847-1851
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer reading the "Legend of Custance" to Edward III and his court, at the palace of Sheen, on the anniversary of the Black Prince's forty-fifth birthday
- Date
- 1847-1851
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 372.0 x 296.0 cm stretcher; 391.0 x 315.0 x 8.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., brown oil "F. MADOX BROWN". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1876
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 703
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Ford Madox Brown
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About
This painting, a celebration of the English language, was the first major European work to be purchased by the Art Gallery, and has been proudly displayed since 1876. Chaucer, the ‘father of English literature’, is reading lines from The Canterbury tales to King Edward III, who first championed the English language over the French. The patriotic medieval subject was inspired by recent commissions for mural paintings in the British Houses of Parliament.
As Ford Madox Brown worked on the painting, he became closely involved with the group of young artists who in 1848 founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His essential aim was to depict a significant historical event just as it might have appeared, and to honour the Pre-Raphaelite’s concern for truth to nature. Brown also used his friends rather than professionals for models, appropriately asking the poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti to sit for the figure of Chaucer, while others of his circle appear as supernumeraries.
It was Brown’s desire in this, surely one of the greatest 19th century British paintings in Australia, to encapsulate an historical moment: the birth of the English language. The Tate Gallery in London possesses a replica of the work created by Brown in 1856-68, exact in detail but much reduced in scale.
Though never officially a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – a group which loved the Middle Ages and its tales of heroism, chivalry and romance – Brown was a colleague of Rossetti and William Morris and was, by inclination and practice, sympathetic to the realist ambitions of the movement. Born in Calais, Brown studied in Belgium and was influenced by the German Nazarene painters in Rome before his first liaison with Pre-Raphaelitism. Working with pure colours and clear contours on a dazzling white ground, and carefully composing his subjects from well-lit life, Brown achieved a sense of pageantry in this tableau. Its lower portions are especially immediate, an extensive cleaning having revealed the glorious condition of the original paintwork. Though Brown began his original composition in Rome, the final canvas was begun in London in 1847, and completed in 1851.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 10 exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, 1851, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1851–1851
Paris Exposition Universelle, 1855, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 15 May 1855–15 Nov 1855
Liverpool Academy, 1858, Liverpool Academy, , 1858–1858
The exhibition of work and other paintings by Ford Madox Brown, Piccadilly Gallery, London, 1865–1865
The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle: Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Mar 1962–Mar 1962
Pre-Raphaelite art: paintings, drawings, engravings, sculpture, tapestries, chintzes, wallpapers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Oct 1962–28 Oct 1962
Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 05 Dec 1964–02 Jan 1965
Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 09 Jan 1965–31 Jan 1965
Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001
Love and death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Mar 2002–12 May 2002
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 387 publications
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Laurent Bury, Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens, ‘Which medievalism? The case of Ford Madox Brown’, Montpellier, Apr 2011, pp 93–105.
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Edmund Capon, Portrait of a Gallery, 'European art in the old courts', Sydney, 1984, p 14, col illus p 15. See fig 66 for manuscript illumination of the same subject.
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Nicole Chareyron, Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, ‘Une reconstitution imaginaire de la cour d’Edouard III par le peintre Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893): Le Moyen Âge après le Moyen Âge dans le monde anglophone’, Paris, 1995, pp 26–46.
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Colin Cruise, Burlington Magazine, ‘“Sincerity and earnestness”: DG Rossetti’s early exhibitions 1849–53’, London, Jan 2004, pp 4–12: p 11.
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Arthur Greenwood and Harold W H Stephen, Catalogue descriptive and critical of the Art Gallery with Sydney art notes, Sydney, 1883, p 14. Not an official publication.
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Ford Madox Hueffer, Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: catalogue of the fifth exhibition, ‘A note on the work of Ford Madox Brown’, London, 1896, pp 11–20: pp 15, 18–19. See also no 417 for oil sketch of head of Chaucer; no 441 for ‘First sketch for “Chaucer”’; and no 442 for a photograph from the ‘Second sketch for “Chaucer”’ (both the last in the collection of C Fairfax Murray)
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Allen Staley and Christopher Newall, Pre-Raphaelite vision: truth to nature, London, 2004-2005, p 66 under no 26, illus p 67, fig 16. For Cardiff oil sketch see no 26.
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Harold WH Stephen, Border Watch, ‘Sydney sketches’, Mt Gambier, 08 Sep 1883, suppl p 2.
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F G Stephens, Portfolio, ‘Mr Ford Madox Brown: his early studies and motives’, London, Jan 1893, pp 62–69: pp 64, 66.
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F.G. Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, London, May 1894, pp 24–25 and p 25 note 1. Reprint of the article in Portfolio, May 1894.
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F. G. Stephens, Portfolio, 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti', London, May 1894, pp 5–94; pp 24–25. Chaucer's head based on Rossetti's.
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Andreas Strobl, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, ‘Brown, Ford Madox’, Munich, 1996, p 414.
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Sir Roy Colin Strong, And when did you last see your father, London, 1978, pp 44, 47, 58, 61, 72. See also p 59 for illustration of the Tate replica.
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Virginia Surtees (Editor), The diary of Ford Madox Brown, New Haven, 1981, pp 1–17, 25, 40 note 48, 41–49, 63–68, 72–74, 84, 113, 116, 119, 121–25, 157, 162, 183, 199 (sketch), 212, illus pl 2 opp p 2. For oil sketches and watercolour, see also pp 74–76, 80, 163.
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, 'The Chaucer Tales', Sydney, Mar 2006, pp 18, 19, col illus p 18.
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Tate Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites, London, 1984, pp 15, 52–55, illus p 14. Also reprinted with additions and corrections 1994. For oil sketches and replica see also nos 6–7, 20.
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D. F. T., Look, 'Chaucer gets a facelift', Heidelberg, Feb 1993, p 9, col illus p 9.
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A.G. Temple, The art of painting in the Queen’s reign, being a glance at some of the painters and paintings of the British school during the last sixty years, London, 1897, p 94.
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Daniel Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, vol 4, no 1, ‘Some Pre-Raphaelite paintings’, Sydney, Oct 1962, pp 119–25, pp 119–21, illus p 120 and p 122 (details).
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Joyce H Townsend, Jacqueline Ridge and Stephen Hackney, Pre-Raphaelite painting techniques, London, 2004, pp 27, 59, 60, 67, 92–96, 122, 142, col illus p 92, fig 39, pp 93–94, figs 40–46 (details). See also p 25 for Ashmolean oil sketch, and pp 51, 121–23 for Tate replica.
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Julian Treuherz (Editor), Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite pioneer, London, 2011-2012.
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Julian Treuherz, Pre-Raphaelite paintings from the Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1993, pp 14–15, illus p 16, fig 4. See also pl 9 for the Manchester oil sketch.
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Julian Treuherz, Pre-Raphaelite Papers, 'The Pre-Raphaelites and medieval illuminated manuscripts', London, 1984, pp 153–169: pp 154-55.
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Julian Treuherz, Pre-Raphaelite paintings from the Manchester City Art Gallery, London, 1980, p 27, 30, illus p 28, fig 4. See also pl 9 for Manchester oil sketch. A 2nd edition of this book appeared in 1993.
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Angus Trumble (Curator), Love and Death: art in the age of Queen Victoria, Adelaide, 2001-2002, pp 63–69, 86–87, 194, 207, col illus pp 62, 67 (details), 195.
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Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Adventures in Art: Australian National Art Gallery pictures, Sydney, circa 1945, p 4.
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William Vaughan, German romanticism and English art, New Haven, 1979, pp 221, 223. Ashmolean oil sketch illus fig 151.
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Giles Waterfield, Burlington Magazine, ‘Antiquaries in Britain. London’, London, Dec 2007, pp 871–72: p 872. Review.
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Joan Webb, Eccleston Du Faur: man of vision, Berowra, 2004, p 50. Du Faur’s report on the conservation of pictures; Du Faur’s 1906 lecture on the conservation of paintings with special reference to Brown’s Chaucer.
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Gail S Weinberg, Burlington Magazine, ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Salutation of Beatrice” and Camille Bonnard’s “Costumes Historiques”’, London, Oct 1999, pp 622–623: p 622.
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Stephen Wildman, British watercolours from Birmingham 1750–1900, 1991-1992, p 212, under no 92. Exhibition at Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Japan; Bankside Gallery, London; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham.
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Stephen Wildman, Visions of love and life, Virginia, 1995, p 84 under no 7, illus p 84 fig 20. See no 7 for drawing.
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Christopher Wood, The Pre-Raphaelites, London, 1981, p 46, col illus p 47.
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Eriko Yamaguchi, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, ‘Rossetti’s use of Bonnard’s “Costumes Historiques”: a further examination, with an appendix on other Pre-Raphaelite artists’, Toronto, Fall 2000, pp 5–36: pp 5, 9, 22.
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CD Young, Sydney Morning Herald, 'To the editor of the Herald', Sydney, 05 Dec 1879, p 6.
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Helen Zimmern, Emporium, ‘Artisti contemporanei: Ford Madox Brown’, Nov 1897, pp 323–39: p 329, illus p 328.
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Graphic, ‘The late Mr Ford Madox-Brown’, 14 Oct 1893, p 483.
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Brisbane Courier, ‘An eminent British artist’, Brisbane, 19 Jan 1894, p 4.
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Glasgow Herald, ‘Death of Mr Ford Madox Brown’, Glasgow, 07 Oct 1893, p 4.
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Aberdeen Weekly Journal, ‘Death of Mr F M Brown’, Aberdeen, 07 Oct 1893, p 5.
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The Brisbane Courier, ‘Cable Messages. (From our London correspondent.)’, Brisbane, 09 Oct 1893, p 5.
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Advertiser, ‘Obituary. Ford Madox Brown. London, Oct 7’, Adelaide, 09 Oct 1893, p 5.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Death of Mr. Madox Brown. London, Oct. 7’, Sydney, 09 Oct 1893, p 5.
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South Australian Register, ‘Death of Mr. Madox-Brown. London, Oct 7’, Adelaide, 09 Oct 1893, p 5.
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Singleton Argus, ‘General gleanings’, Singleton, 11 Oct 1893, p 1.
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British Architect, ‘Ford Madox Brown’, London, 13 Oct 1893, pp 252–53: p 252.
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The Argus, ‘Ford Madox Brown’, Melbourne, 13 Oct 1893, p 6.
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Athenaeum, ‘Mr Ford Madox Brown’, London, 24 Oct 1893, pp 526–27: p 527.
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Queenslander, ‘One of Britain’s foremost artists’, Brisbane, 20 Jan 1894, p 118.
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Australian Town and Country Journal, ‘Literary gossip’, Brisbane, 04 Jul 1896, p 26.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘The museum. To the editor of the Herald’, Sydney, 19 Apr 1879, p 3.
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Australian Town and Country Journal, 'Gossip', Sydney, 12 Dec 1896, p 44.
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Exhibition of the works of Ford Madox Brown, London, 1897, pp 10–12, under no 16. Quotes extensively from Brown’s diary. See also no 9 for the Ashmolean sketch.
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Art Journal, ‘The February exhibitions in London’, London, 1897, p 92.
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Athenaeum, ‘Fine arts – exhibition of works of Ford Madox Brown at the Grafton Gallery’, London, 13 Feb 1897, pp 220–21.
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Argus, ‘“Sabbath-breaking” in Sydney’, Melbourne, 18 May 1878, p 4.
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Athenaeum, ‘Ford Madox Brown: a record of his life and work’, London, 27 Feb 1897, pp 284–85: p 285. Review of Hueffer 1896.
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Art Journal, ‘The February exhibitions in London’, London, Mar 1897, pp 92–94: p 92.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Mr William Michael Rossetti’, Sydney, 12 Mar 1897, p 3.
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Athenaeum, ‘Ford Madox Brown: a Record of his Life and Work’, London, 13 Mar 1897, pp 352–54: p 353.
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Clarence and Richmond Examiner, ‘Tasma’s letter’, Sydney, 20 Mar 1897, p 8.
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Athenaeum, ‘The international exhibition’, London, 11 May 1878, pp 607–09: p 607.
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British and foreign correspondence 9/1899, letter from George Bell & Sons, 20 Jun 1890. Requests permission to reproduce the painting in a book by Percy Bate.
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Observer, ‘Ancient and modern pictures: sale of the Bibby collection’, London, 04 Jun 1899, p 10.
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Conservation report by Arthur Murch, 20 Feb 1900.
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Correspondence 4/1878, letter from Australian Museum, 09 Mar 1878. Hanging of Chaucer at museum.
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British and foreign correspondence BF4/1900, letter from Walter Rowlands, 05 Mar 1900. Requests photograph to illustrate his book ‘Scenes from the lives of the great authors’.
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Trustees’ minutes 1900, 03 Apr 1900, p 233. Murch to continue his conservation treatment.
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Trustees’ minutes 1900, 20 Apr 1900, p 245. Request from Walter Rowlands of Mass, USA, for photo of Ford Madox Brown Chaucer for an illustrated book.
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Correspondence 3/1878, letter from Australian Museum, 23 Feb 1878. Hanging of Chaucer at museum.
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Observer, ‘Art – At Burlington House’, London, 06 Jan 1901, p 6.
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Correspondence 2/1878, draft of a letter to the Australian Museum, 21 Feb 1878 (appended to a letter from the Australian Museum of 11 Feb 1878), 21 Feb 1878. Accepts terms for the hanging of the Chaucer in the Australian Museum.
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Correspondence 2/1878, letter from the Australian Museum, 11 Feb 1878. Agrees to hang Chaucer.
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Art Journal, ‘Three important exhibitions’, London, Mar 1901, pp 95–96: p 95.
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Conservation report by Arthur Murch, after March 1906, p 16. After March 1906.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘National Art Gallery’, Sydney, 13 Jul 1906, p 5.
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Trustees’ minutes 1902, 21 Mar 1902, p 435. Letter from London re lining canvas.
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National Art Gallery of NSW illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1906, pp 2–3, no 4, illus p 2.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'Ford Madox Brown', Sydney, 03 May 1877, p 6.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'Art', Sydney, 21 Sep 1877, p 4.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘All the world over’, Sydney, 20 Sep 1905, p 5.
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Correspondence 55/1906, Memo by Du Faur addressed to Arthur Murch, 19 Apr 1906. Du Faur has been told by Mr Callan that much of the painting is executed in watercolour or tempera and suggests that facing the picture may be fatal.
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Athenaeum, ‘Fine-Art Gossip’, London, 25 Aug 1906, pp 221–22: p 221.
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Collector and Art Critic, ‘Foreign Notes’, New York, Oct 1906, pp 346–48: p 348.
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Collector and Art Critic, 'Sales', New York, Oct 1906, pp 348–52: p 350. Tate verison.
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Catalogue of an exhibition of collected works by Ford Madox Brown, London, 1909, p 56, under no 44. For Manchester oil sketch see no 44.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales Bi-monthly conversational discussions, 1906–7, ‘Third bi-monthly conversational discussion at the Art Gallery of NSW, 12 July 1906’, Sydney, 1910, pp 25–36: 25–28, 30–36.
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Trustees' minutes 1878, 20 Feb 1878, p 361.
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List of pictures in the gallery of the Academy of Art (Elizabeth Street, near Hunter Street), Sydney, Oct 1877, p 333. A copy inserted in Trustees’ minutes 1877.
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British and foreign correspondence BF11/1908, letter from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 01 Jan 1908. Thanking the gallery for sending a photograph which helped in identifying drawings in the Birmingham collection.
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Inquirer & Commercial News, 'Art at the Antipodes', Perth, 25 Apr 1877, p 3.
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Loan exhibition of works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Manchester, 1911, pp xiv, xv, 10, under no 52, 12, under no 58. For sketches and drawings, see nos 52–53, 58, 118.
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Trustees’ minutes 1911, 24 Mar 1911, p 123. DS MacColl’s report: ‘Gallery seems to possess not a single picture of the first rank ... Madox Brown’s Chaucer is one of the few pictures that could tempt a European student to visit the gallery’.
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Australian Town and Country Journal, [No Title], Sydney, 21 Apr 1877, p 628.
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Australian Town and Country Journal, 'The fine arts', Sydney, 14 Apr 1877, p 19.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Old masters needed: our art gallery condemned (by travelling connoisseur)’, Sydney, 08 Jun 1917, p 6.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 7, no 4, illus p 7.
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Christian Science Monitor, ‘A survey of Australian art: Australians abroad in the galleries’, Boston, 09 Sep 1918, p 14.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, pp 5–7, no 1, illus p 5.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Art at the Antipodes (from The Builder)’, Sydney, 30 Mar 1877, p 3.
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Townsville Daily Bulletin, ‘Holiday notes’, Townsville, 15 Jan 1929, p 11.
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Exposition rétrospective de peinture anglaise (XVIIIe et XIXe siècles), Brussels, 1929, p 28, under no 17. See no 17 for a related drawing.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Art at the Antipodes’, Sydney, 30 Mar 1877, p 3.
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General Correspondence 8/1877, New South Wales, 13 Feb 1877. Australian Museum agrees to hang the painting.
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Correspondence 2/1878, note by Alfred Stephens, 12 Feb 1877. Note by Alfred Stephens. Concerning Australian Museum’s offer to find space for the Chaucer.
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Courier-Mail, '‘Critics’ praise – Pictures for Sydney – Sound purchases’, Brisbane, 26 Sep 1933, p 12.
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Manchester Guardian, ‘Gifts to the City Art Gallery’, Manchester, 23 May 1931, p 9. Manchester oil sketch.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Lectures on Art’, Sydney, 26 Jun 1931, p 9.
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Correspondence 124/1931, letter from Stanley Kennedy North, London, 06 Jul 1931. Recommends treating the Chaucer by waxing the surface.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘London topics’, Sydney, 28 Oct 1933, p 14.
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Townsville Daily Bulletin, 'Impressions', Townsville, 16 Jan 1934, p 5.
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Townsville Daily Bulletin, ‘Essays in brief. From Sydney’, Townsville, 28 Jan 1937, p 7.
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Townsville Daily Bulletin, ‘Painters and painting’, Townsville, 28 May 1937, p 12.
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Trustees’ minutes 1931, 28 Aug 1931, p 1210. Cost approved for making a block of the Chaucer for reproduction (presumably in Art in Australia).
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Sunday Times, ‘New South Wales Art Gallery pictures’, Perth, 20 Jan 1932, p 24.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Striking costumes in medieval sets’, Sydney, 11 Nov 1937, p 19.
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Townsville Daily Bulletin, ‘Essays in brief’, Townsville, 04 Sep 1939, p 2.
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Kalgoorlie Miner, ‘A new ABC adventure’, Perth, 17 Aug 1940, p 5.
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An exhibition of a selected number of subject pictures belonging to the national collection, typescript exh cat, Sydney, Jul 1943, p 7.
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Pre-Raphaelite drawings [from Birmingham], London, 1947, p 12, under no 43. See no 43 for drawing.
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Paintings and drawings by British artists from the City of Birmingham Art Gallery, Aberystwyth, 1956, p 16, under no 40. See also nos 40–41 for drawing and watercolour.
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Argus, ‘Stories of the ages: the story of Griselda’, Melbourne, 06 Jul 1946, p 27. Supplement Argus Week-End Magazine.
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The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, Birmingham, 1947, pp 10, 29. See no 9 for Tate replica and nos 124–27 for drawings.
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Illustrated souvenir: eighty reproductions from the collections of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales: a selection of eighty reproductions mainly from the Australian collection and including examples from the British, French and Dutch, Sydney, circa 1950, illus p [31], pl 51. As ‘Chaucer reading his poems before John of Gaunt’.
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Illustrated souvenir: eighty-two reproductions from the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: a selection of eighty-two reproductions mainly from the Australian collection and including examples from the British, French and Dutch, Sydney, circa 1958, illus p [31], pl 51.
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The Australian Children’s Pictorial, Sydney, Feb 1951, col illus cover.
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Ten decades, a review of British taste, 1851–1951, London, 1951, np, under no 3. See no 3 for Tate replica.
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Some Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings, Cardiff, 1955, p 8, under no 7. See no 7 for preparatory drawing.
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Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate, ‘Metropolitan Gossip’, Singleton, 06 Jan 1877, p 2.
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Catalogue of paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1961, vol 1, p 29, under no 79. 2 vols.
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Illustrated London News, ‘Ford Madox Brown’, London, 24 Oct 1964, pp 658–59: p 658.
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Treasury of Literature and The Ladies’ Treasury, ‘An English art reformer’, 01 Feb 1873, pp 73–76: p 74.
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Trustees' minutes 1965, 23 Jul 1965, p 5554. Ford Madox Brown returned from Liverpool undamaged.
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Victorian paintings, Sheffield, 1968, p 10. See no 15 for Tate replica.
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Art Journal, ‘The works of Ford Madox Brown’, London, 1873, pp 105–08: p 107.
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Brisbane Courier, 'Our Sydney Letter', Brisbane, 04 Jan 1877, p 3.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Chaucer before the court of Edward III. To the editor of the Herald’, Sydney, 03 Jan 1877, p 3.
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Art Journal, ‘Art-notes from the continent’, London, Jan 1877, p 20.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Additions to the Art Gallery – To the editor of the Herald [letter]’, Sydney, 30 Dec 1876, p 8.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Additions to the Art Gallery’, Sydney, 25 Dec 1876, p 5.
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Daniel Maclise 1806–1870, London, 1972, p 88.
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Sixth annual report of the New South Wales Academy of Art [for the year 1876–77], Sydney, 1877, p 5. Schedule of pictures, the property of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and of the New South Wales Academy of Art.
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Glasgow Herald, ‘Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts – distribution of prizes’, Glasgow, 29 Jul 1872, p 3.
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Scribner’s monthly, ‘An English art reformer: Ford Madox Brown’, New York, Jun 1872, pp 157–61: pp 158–59.
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Transactions of the Manchester Literary Club, ‘The works of Mr Ford Madox Brown [read Jan 11 1875]’, Manchester, 1874-1875, pp 40–47: p 42.
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Pall Mall Gazette, ‘Mr Madox Brown’s exhibition’, London, 29 Mar 1865, pp 10–11: p 10.
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Daily Telegraph, ‘Mr Madox Brown’s exhibition’, London, 24 Mar 1865, p 3.
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London review of politics, society, literature, art, and science, ‘Mr Madox Brown’s pictures’, London, 18 Mar 1865, p 299.
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Art Journal, ‘Mr. F Madox Brown’s pictures’, London, 1865, p 156.
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The exhibition of Work, and other paintings, by Ford Madox Brown, at the Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London, 1865, pp 3–4, no 1, p 19, no 45. Ashmolean oil sketch.
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Men of the time: a biographical dictionary of eminent living characters of both sexes, London, 1865, p 116.
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Daily News, ‘Sale of the late Mr Plint’s collection’, London, 11 Mar 1862, p 3.
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Leeds Mercury, ‘Sale of the late Mr TE Plint’s pictures’, Leeds, 10 Mar 1862, p 3.
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Manchester Guardian, ‘The sale of Mr Plint’s pictures: a notice of the principal works’, Manchester, 04 Mar 1862, p 3.
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Times, ‘Sale of Pre-Raffaelite pictures’, London, 10 Mar 1862, p 10.
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Times, ‘Mr Plint’s collection of English pictures’, London, 08 Mar 1862, p 8.
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Liverpool Mercury, ‘Liverpool Academy’s exhibition’, Liverpool, 16 Sep 1859, p 6.
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Critic, 'Talk of the studios', 30 Oct 1858, p 737.
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Nottinghamshire Guardian, [No title], Nottingham, 23 Sep 1858, p 7.
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Polyptyques: le tableau multiple du moyen âge au vingtième siècle, Paris, 1990, p 158, under no 31. See also no 31 for Ashmolean oil sketch. Catalogue entry by Sophie Gillot-Calais.
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Nottinghamshire Guardian, ‘General news’, Nottingham, 23 Sep 1858, p 7.
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Standard, [No title], 20 Sep 1858, p 3.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 1992 [for the year ended 30 June 1992], Sydney, 1992, p 37. For the year ended 30 June 1992. Regarding conservation treatment.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1993, Sydney, 1993, p 26. For the year ended 30 June 1993. Regarding conservation treatment.
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John Bull and Britannia, ‘Facts in art, science, and literature’, London, 11 Sep 1858, p 589.
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Literary Gazette, ‘Miscellanea’, London, 11 Sep 1858, pp 348–50: p 348.
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Englishwoman’s Review and Home Newspaper, ‘Exhibition of pictures at Liverpool’, London, 11 Sep 1858, p 135.
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North Wales Chronicle, [No title], Bangor, 11 Sep 1858, p 6.
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Caledonian Mercury, 'Literature', Edinburgh, 08 Sep 1858, p 4.
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Caledonian Mercury, ‘Liverpool Academy exhibition of pictures’, Edinburgh, 08 Sep 1858, p 4.
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Manchester Guardian, 'Liverpool', Manchester, 06 Sep 1858, p 4.
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National Magazine, ‘The Crystal Palace Picture Gallery’, London, Sep 1858, pp 309–12: pp 309–10.
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Catalogue of the Liverpool Academy’s thirty-fourth exhibition, Liverpool, 1858, p 13, no 140.
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Morning Post, ‘Fine arts – Picture Gallery – Crystal Palace’, London, 18 Nov 1856, p 3.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2002, Sydney, 2002, p 11. For the year ended 30 June 2002.
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Morning Post, ‘Fine arts – “Mixed schools” – Crystal Palace’, London, 30 Sep 1856, p 3.
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Literary Gazette, ‘Crystal Palace Gallery’, London, 30 Aug 1856, pp 642–43: p 642.
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The Artist, ‘From a correspondent’, New York, 03 Feb 1855, p 27. The picture to be sent for exhibition in Paris.
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Morning Post, 'Paris Universal Exhibition', London, 04 Sep 1855, p 3.
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Daily News, ‘The Paris Universal Exhibition’, London, 13 Apr 1855, p 2.
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Exposition Universelle de 1855: explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, lithographie et architecture..., Paris, 1855, p 86, no 746.
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The Cambridge illuminations, London, 2005, pp 274–76, no 129, col illus p 275. Troilus and Criseyde frontispiece.
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Paris Universal Exhibition 1855. Catalogue of the works exhibited in the British section of the exhibition, London, 1855, p 168, no 746.
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Observer, ‘Universal exhibition of the fine arts in Paris’, London, 02 Oct 1853, p 5.
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Spectator, 'Fine arts – winter exhibition of sketches and drawings’, London, 18 Dec 1852, p 1212. Study for the head of the Black Prince ‘in the great picture exhibited last year’.
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Art Journal, ‘The exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1852, the eighty-fourth’, London, 01 Jun 1952, pp 165–76: p 175.
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Art Journal, ‘Exhibition of sketches and drawings’, London, 1851, pp 259–60: p 260.
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Art Journal, ‘The Royal Academy: the eighty-third exhibition, 1851’, London, 1851, pp 153–162: p 157.
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Ford Madox Brown the unofficial Pre-Raphaelite: works on paper by Ford Madox Brown from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, London, 2008, pp 12, 25–27, 49–50, 52, 54, 63–66. Drawings illus pp 23, 42–43, 47.
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Aberdeen Journal, ‘Notes on notable things, no II – the Royal Academy of Arts’, Aberdeen, 04 Jun 1851, p 5.
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Bell's Weekly Messenger, ‘Royal Academy – fourth notice’, London, 31 May 1851, p 2. ‘The artist may do something by and bye, but he has much to learn before he is equal to group such a subject as he has here most unwisely attempted to delineate’.
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Athenaeum, 'Royal Academy', London, 24 May 1851, pp 559–60: p 560.
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Literary Gazette, 'The Royal Academy', London, 24 May 1851, p 365.
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Illustrated London News, ‘Royal Academy exhibition (second notice)’, London, 17 May 1851, pp 415–16.
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New Zealand Herald, ‘Huge paintings create pageant of the past’, Auckland, 29 Jan 2011, p [B18].
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Observer, ‘Royal Academy of Arts – second notice’, London, 12 Mar 1865, suppl p 2.
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Builder, 'The Royal Academy', London, 18 Mar 1865, pp 292–93: p 292.
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Times, ‘Exhibition of the Royal Academy (private view): first notice’, London, 03 May 1851, p 8.
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Morning Post, ‘The exhibition of the Royal Academy – private view’, London, 03 May 1851, p 5.
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Daily News, ‘Fine arts – exhibition of the Royal Academy (first notice)’, London, 03 May 1851, p 6.
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Athenaeum, 'Fine-Art Gossip', London, 01 Sep 1906, pp 249–50: p 250.
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New South Wales Art Gallery pictures, Sydney, 1931, col illus pl 11.
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The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962: Special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, 'The Pre-Raphaelites and their circle', Adelaide, 1962, np, no 3.
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Pre-Raphaelite art: paintings, drawings, engravings, sculpture, tapestries, chintzes, wallpapers, Sydney, 1962, pp 5, 7, 9–10, no 3, illus pl 2 and col illus cover.
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North Wales Chronicle, 'Exhibition of pictures at Liverpool', Bangor, 11 Sep 1858, p 6.
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Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893, Liverpool, 1964, pp 3, 4, 5, 8, 13 no 11, 14, illus pl 2. For oil sketches and drawings see nos 12–14, 50–58.
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Dundee Courier & Argus, ‘Death of a celebrated painter’, Dundee, 07 Oct 1893, p 5.
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Trustees’ minutes 1906, 18 May 1906. Restoration of Chaucer in hand ‘for lining and general renovating’.
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Saint George, ‘The Pre-Raphaelite painters and their pictures at Glasgow International Exhibition’, London, Jan 1902, pp 18–26: p 24.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1999, 'Director's Introduction', Sydney, 1999, pp 5–7.
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Correspondence 62/1877, letter from the Australian Museum, 07 Dec 1877. Custody of Chaucer painting: decision to be referred to a committee.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Mr. Brown and his pictures. To the editor of the Herald’, Sydney, 09 Jan 1877, p 6.
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Builder, ‘Work! at Mr Madox Brown’s exhibition of pictures’, London, 18 Mar 1865, p 186.
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Observer, ‘Mr Madox Brown’s pictures, 191, Piccadilly’, London, 12 Mar 1865, p 5.
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Daily News, London, 11 Nov 1882, p 5. This must be the article referred to in Brown’s letter of 20 Nov 1882.
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Art Journal, ‘The provincial exhibitions – Liverpool Academy’, London, Oct 1858, p 309.
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Athenaeum, 'Fine-art gossip', London, 18 Nov 1882, pp 668–69: p 669.
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Manchester Times, 'Art and literary gossip', Manchester, 18 Nov 1882, p 8.
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Manchester Times, [No Title], Manchester, 18 Nov 1882, p 8.
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Baner ac Amserau Cymru, ‘Cynnwysiad’, Liverpool, 18 Nov 1882, p 1.
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Correspondence 45/1882, letter from Ford Madox Brown, 20 Nov 1882. Refers to an article in the London Daily News reporting the destruction of his work by fire and offers to paint a replacement.
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Correspondence 3/1883, letter from Australian Museum, 19 Jan 1883. Forwarding Brown’s offer to repaint the Chaucer.
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York Herald, [No Title], 20 Nov 1882, p 6.
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Manchester Times, [No Title], Greater Manchester, 25 Nov 1882, p 6.
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Sydney Morning Herald, no 13896, ‘The Art Gallery’, Sydney, 12 Oct 1882, p 8.
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Trustees’ minutes 5 Mar 1883, 05 Mar 1883, p 152. To reply to Brown thanking him for his offer to repaint the picture but assuring him that the work is not destroyed.
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Liverpool Mercury, ‘The Walker Art Gallery’, Liverpool, 22 Apr 1882, p 5.
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Catalogue of the Art Gallery of New South Wales ... published by sanction of the trustees, Sydney, 1883, p 27, no 65, illus (sketch by EL Montefiore) p 27.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 'News of the day', Sydney, 25 Jan 1883, p 9.
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Manchester Times, 'Art and literary gossip', Manchester, 03 Feb 1883, p 8.
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Sydney Mail, ‘The picture gallery and the museum’, Sydney, 08 Apr 1882, p 548.
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Manchester Times, ‘Art and literary gossip’, Manchester, 03 Feb 1883, p 8.
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Athenaeum, ‘Fine-Art Gossip’, London, 03 Feb 1883, pp 161–62: p 161.
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Manchester Guardian, ‘Literary and other notes’, Manchester, 03 Feb 1883, p 5.
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Catalogue of the National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1884, p 27, no 67, illus (sketch by EL Montefiore) p 27.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘News of the day’, Sydney, 17 Jun 1885, p 9.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘My impressions of Sydney, V – In The Art Gallery’, Sydney, 18 Sep 1886, p 8.
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Sydney Mail, ‘New South Wales Art Gallery’, Sydney, 11 Dec 1880, p 1113.
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British painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, London, circa 1880, p 117. See also p 119 for Tate replica.
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Athenaeum, ‘The collected works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’, London, 12 Mar 1887, pp 346–49: p 348.
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Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Pictures in Sydney, II – Subject painting at the Art Gallery’, Sydney, 11 Jun 1887, p 6.
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Illustrated Sydney News, 'The Art Gallery of NSW', Sydney, 20 Nov 1880, pp 10–11: p 10.
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Art lectures delivered by Sidney Dickenson, MA at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1889, p 44.
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Correspondence 29/1880, letter from Australian Museum, 22 Jul 1880. Museum agrees to return Chaucer to Art Gallery.
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Ninth annual report of the New South Wales Academy of Art [for the year 1879–80], Sydney, 1880, p 5. For the year 1878–79.
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Glasgow Herald, ‘Our London correspondence’, Glasgow, 14 Apr 1890, p 7.
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Trustees' minutes 1880, 07 Jul 1880, p 615.
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Eighth annual report of the New South Wales Academy of Art, Sydney, 1879, p 4. For the year 1878–79.
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Portfolio, ‘Art chronicle’, London, 24 Jan 1893, pp 1–26: p 23.
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Daily News, [No Title], London, 07 Oct 1893, p 5.
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Australian Town and Country Journal, ‘Death of Mr. Madox Brown’, Sydney, 14 Oct 1893, p 46.
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Provenance
Robert Dickinson, 1850-1855, London/England, [dealer] Sold to Dickinson for 85% of any future sale. Dickinson paid £20 on account to Madox Brown.
D.T. White, 1855-Nov 1863, [dealer] Failed to sell at unspecified auction, thence sold to White for £50. Brown retreived the painting from White, November 1863, in exchange for six paintings.
Ford Madox Brown, Nov 1863-Jun 1876, England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the artist 1876