Ford Madox Brown
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![Brown, at left, with William Holman Hunt. Caricature by Max Beerbohm from Rossetti and His Circle.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Rossetti-102658.jpg")
![The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855](/Images/godic/202501/13/Brown_last_of_england2658.jpg")
![Brown's Jacob and Joseph's Coat at Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico](/Images/godic/202501/13/Ford_Madox_Brown_-_The_Coat_of_Many_Colours_-_Google_Art_Project2658.jpg")
Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work (1852–1865). Brown spent the latter years of his life painting the Manchester Murals, depicting Mancunian history, for Manchester Town Hall.