Who painted “Work”?

“Work” was painted by Ford Madox Brown in 1852. Where to see it: Manchester Art Gallery.

What to look for

Pre-Raphaelite: intense colour, hard-edged detail everywhere at once, flowing hair and medieval or literary subjects; Academic art of the time is smoother and more classical.

Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Wikipedia

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More by Ford Madox Brown

“The Last of England”, 1853
“Take your Son, Sir!”, 1851
“Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois”, 1877
“Pretty Baa-Lambs”, 1851
“Manfred on the Jungfrau”, 1842
“Stages of Cruelty”, 1890
“Cromwell on his Farm”, 1874
“An English Autumn Afternoon, 1852-1853”, 1854