Paintings
Cordelia Parting from her Sisters
Permanent ExhibitionPainting
Details
- Author / creator
- Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821–1893)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1854
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 30.5 × 36.8 × 3.5 cm; Unframed: 19.5 × 26.5 cm
- Support
- Panel
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- England
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of the Albright Lane Trust, 2013
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Pen and oil on paper on panel
