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bush behind the wall. The man – her lover – looks mournfully over a wall at the woman, grasping her right hand and arm, but she rejects him without remorse. She wears a white jacket, with lace collar and cuffs, and a long blue skirt; some red flowers, perhaps
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Like Hogarth's series, Brown's painting shows separate episodes in the life of the same character, although in this case on the same canvas, with a cruel child growing up to become a cruel adult.
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while the dog raises a paw in protest. Behind her, sitting on a brick wall beside the stairs, a young woman is turning away from a man hidden in a
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In Brown's painting, a girl in a red dress and a white bonnet is shown sitting at the bottom of a flight of stone steps, spitefully hitting her
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Brown started the work without a commission, and then it languished for many years. It was eventually finished for the brewer,
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The flowers are symbolic, reflecting their accepted meanings in the Victorian
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The young girl was initially modelled on Brown's second daughter
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Index


Catherine Madox Brown

April Love
Ford Madox Brown
Manchester Art Gallery
Arthur Hughes
April Love
William Hogarth
Four Stages of Cruelty
bloodhound
love-lies-bleeding
lilac
geraniums
bindweed
convolvulus
language of flowers
Catherine
Henry Boddington
Tate Britain
Ashmolean Museum
List of paintings by Ford Madox Brown
Stages of Cruelty
Art of Ford Madox Brown
Chalk Drawing - Stages of Cruelty
Watercolour - Stages of Cruelty
Watercolour - Stages of Cruelty
Stages of Cruelty by Ford Madox Brown
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