Of all DGR's contemporaries, Ford Madox Brown was the one he wrote about most frequently. This article is his third on Brown; the other two are the 1851 “
In
Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer
In or about
” 1857, “Rossetti
wrote another little article about Madox Brown—the brief biographical
notice which appears in
”
Men of the
Time
; a notice which has been added
to by some other hand at a later date, and which may or may not, in
other respects, stand strictly as written by
Rossetti.
The earliest comfirmable edition of
<xref doc="a.ct119.m5.rad">Men of the Time</xref>
to contain a sketch of Brown
was the fourth, published in 1857, where it appeared in the Addenda
section; this text
is presented here. Later editions of
Men
of the Time
(e.g., 1872, 1887, 1891) published altered versions
of the sketch of Brown.