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Cordelia Parting from her Sisters
Ford Madox Brown1854
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Reimagining English history was one way that Victorian (1837–1901) artists rooted themselves during a period of tremendous social and political change and life-altering technological advances. Ford Madox Brown’s expressive and vividly colored sketch for an unrealized project takes a story from Britain’s most famous playwright, Shakespeare. The artist chooses the dramatic moment when King Lear’s daughter Cordelia parts ways with her sisters.
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- Title: Cordelia Parting from her Sisters
- Creator: Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821–1893)
- Date Created: 1854
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 30.5 x 36.8 x 3.5 cm (12 x 14 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 19.5 x 26.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: July/August 1854 - D.T. White (dealer), acquired for £10, by February 1855 - B.G. Windus, July 19 1862 - Windus auction, Christie's, London (43), sold as Goneril and Regan, June 1873 - Tooth, London, auction, acquired by John Miller for £16, who exchanged it with the artist for a portrait of himself (Miller), 1874 - Edward Bright, purchased from the artist for £65, by 1897 - Thomas Reid Wilkinson, Manchester, November 11, 1960 - Christie's, London (lot 109), bought by J.S. Maas & Co. Ltd., £22.2s.od, Charles Handley-Reid, London [?], by 1973 - Robert Walker, Paris, J.S. Maas & Co., sold to private collection, Helen [1929-2012] and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, Ohio, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.261
- Medium: pen and oil on paper on panel
- Fun Fact: In 1861, Ford Madox Brown became a founding member of William Morris’s decorative arts company. Besides painting, he also designed stained glass and furniture.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 2013.261
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