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Description: | The Cranbrook Colony were six artists who settled in the quiet village of Cranbrook in Kent in the 1850s: Frederick Daniel Hardy and his brother George, Thomas Webster, GB O'Neill, JC Horsley and AE Mulready. The artists were all friends and some of them were related by marriage. They chose to settle in Cranbrook because it was a farming based community, untouched by the horrors of industrialisation. It was not far from London (the Staplehurst to Charing Cross railway line opened in 1842) so the artists could conveniently keep in touch with the commercial and social world of art. All of the artists regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy's summer show, which was attended by art dealers and wealthy collectors from all over the country. The Cranbrook artists used cottages and people from the village as their models. They presented a rosy version of village life; the cottages were spacious and clean and the children well behaved. It was these kinds of images with their deceptions of 'honest' poverty, which had so much appeal for dwellers of the town. Wolverhampton has a large collection of Cranbrook Colony paintings, most of which were collected by the local industrialist Sidney Cartwright and given to the gallery after his death in 1883.
Oil painting showing washday in a modest rural home. Three children help out whilst their mother can be seen washing in an adjoining room. A baby sits on the floor playing with a doll. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Chairs Houses Fine arts Childhood Mothers Oil painting Oil Paintings Children Homes Victorian period Costume dolls Domestic life 19th Century Paintings Cranbrook Colony of Artists Narrative painting Nineteenth century Children (age group) People Rural life Country life Art collections | Temporal: | 1860 - 1880
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | HARDY; Frederick Daniel (1827 - 1911) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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