Beata Beatrix (replica)

This version of the work differs sharply from the other oils. The background detail clearly develops the cityscape as Florence (rather than leaving the matter ambiguously Florence or London); and the accessories are quite different as well. The messenger-dove is white in this version, not red, and the poppies are red, not white. The details framing the figure of Love (at the left) are distinctive to this work as well (the arbor vitae is replaced by a wall-niche with a crucifix above. The light is also represented very differently in this work from the others. Here light suffuses the area behind Beatrice from a source that is represented as natural (as the lines of light at the left emphasize). In general, the treatment verges on a kind of realism, even though the general iconic/symbolic composition is retained.

This replica was completed by Ford Madox Brown after DGR's death.

• Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 96 (no. 168r-5).
• DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition, Tokyo 1990, 94-95.