Ford Madox Brown's fascinating realist painting Work takes as its heroes a group of labourers laying water pipes in The Mount, Hampstead. They are surrounded by

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Sept. 24, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012 at Manchester Art Gallery and Feb. 25-June 3, 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghen

Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Featurin

Madox Brown, who grew up in France and Belgium before he came to England and won fame with paintings like 'The Last of England', was always an outsider, and the