Artist. Born in France, he was the son of English parents, and studied painting in Antwerp and Bruges, Belgium. Although he was never a member of the group of English poets and artists known as the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," he formed close associations with the members, contributed to their journal, and gave lessons to writer William Michael Rossetti. He was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford (né Hueffer) and great-grandfather of British Lawyer, politician and future UK Home Secretary Frank Soskice. A painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often "Hogarthian" version of the Pre-Raphaelite style, his best known works are The Last of England (1855), which is now found in the Birmingham Art Gallery; Christ Washing Peter's Feet (1851), which is in London's Tate Museum; and Work (1852 to 1865), which hangs in the Manchester Art Gallery. His last important works were twelve murals in Manchester City Hall.
Artist. Born in France, he was the son of English parents, and studied painting in Antwerp and Bruges, Belgium. Although he was never a member of the group of English poets and artists known as the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," he formed close associations with the members, contributed to their journal, and gave lessons to writer William Michael Rossetti. He was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford (né Hueffer) and great-grandfather of British Lawyer, politician and future UK Home Secretary Frank Soskice. A painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often "Hogarthian" version of the Pre-Raphaelite style, his best known works are The Last of England (1855), which is now found in the Birmingham Art Gallery; Christ Washing Peter's Feet (1851), which is in London's Tate Museum; and Work (1852 to 1865), which hangs in the Manchester Art Gallery. His last important works were twelve murals in Manchester City Hall.
Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine
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