Two Drapery Studies [verso]

c. 1844 · Drawing

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Where is “Two Drapery Studies [verso]” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 10 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 1987.73.1.b

What it shows

Object Drapery

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Chalk Romanticism Realism 19th century British

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — Museum open access

In the life of Ford Madox Brown

The whole life

1842
A year of loss: his father and first child die
In the summer the painter’s father, who lived with the young couple in Montmartre, died, and in November Brown and Elizabeth’s first child died in infancy.
1843
No success at the Westminster cartoon competition
Brown submitted “The Body of Harold Brought before William” to the competition for decorating the new Palace of Westminster, without success.
19 July 1843
Daughter born: Lucy Madox Brown
1845
To Rome for his ailing wife
Back in England in 1844, the family set off for Rome in 1845, hoping to relieve Elizabeth’s consumption. That year in Basel Brown was influenced by the works of Holbein.
1845–1846
In Rome: Overbeck, Cornelius and the Nazarenes
In Rome Brown met Friedrich Overbeck and Peter Cornelius and drew close to the Nazarenes. Much of what he took from them later influenced the Pre-Raphaelites.
June 1846
Elizabeth dies on the way back from Rome
Elizabeth, ill with consumption, died in Paris aged 27 on the journey from Rome back to England. She was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.