Ford Madox Brown

Ford Madox Brown was born in Calais and trained in Belgium, Paris and Rome before settling in London. Closely linked to the Pre-Raphaelites though never a member of the Brotherhood, he painted moral and historical subjects with sharp detail and a strong social conscience. Work, in Manchester Art Gallery, and The Last of England, in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, are his best-known paintings. He was a founding partner in William Morris’s design firm and spent his last years painting the twelve Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall.