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Excerpt from Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Vol. 48 Brown. He laboured long for and in Manchester. He painted a series of twelve great pictures for the Town Hall as a splendid decoration to the organ chamber, and cudgelled his brain to make each of these mural paintings an illustration of some outstanding episode in the growth of the city. His youth had been spent in Belgium and France; his middle age in London; then came the commission from the Manchester Corporation, and thenceforth he was in great measure, engrossed by this big task. It grew upon his hands. It led to much reading and research, experiments, cartoons, replicas; those were unavoidable; meetings, interviews, correspondence, arrangements for models and properties; busy Manchester took possession of him and kept him preoccupied until the closing years of his life. Certainly he left in the Town Hall paintings the impress of his sturdy, independent nature and endowed the city with works of art of a high order original, alive with humour and dramatic force, fine and sometimes noble in colour. They are in these respects the best scheme of mural decoration in the country, and the name Ford Madox Brown is indissolubly linked with that of the City. We may well take the centenary as a reminder to reflect upon this remarkable painter and his works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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