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AT-00009470About the Artwork
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.
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 1973-2013: Helen [1929-2012] and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, Ohio, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2013-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821–1893)
- Date
- 1854
- Medium
- pen and oil on paper on panel
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Accession no.
- 2013.261
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Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Open-access museum record · AT-00009470
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