"Her Firstborn, Horsham Churchyard" by Frank Holl (original) (raw)

Her Firstborn, Horsham Churchyard. Frank Holl. 1876. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the McManus, Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum. Catalogue no. 11 in the 2013 Watts Gallery exhibition, Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows. [Click on image to enlarge it.]

Holl's other representations of death and mourning

• Holl's The Lord Gave and the Lord Hath Taketh Away, Blessed Be the Name of the Lord, 1868
• Holl's I am the Resurrection and the Life (The Village Funeral) (1872)

Other representations of death and mourning in Victorian Art

• Henry Courtney Selous's The Death of Biorn (1844)
• Henry Wallis's The Death of Chatterton (1856)
• W. Holman Hunt's At Night (1860)
• Matthew James Lawless's One Dead (1863)
• Robert Barnes's Death by suffocation (1869)
• Sol Eytinge, Jr's Death's Dominion (1869)
• Frank Bramley's For of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven (1891)
• Harry Furniss's Death of Major Taunton (1910)

Bibliography

Bills, Mark. Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013.

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