Wyclif Reading His Translation of the Scriptures to John of Gaunt

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The painting "Wyclif Reading His Translation of the Scriptures to John of Gaunt" by Ford Madox Brown depicts John Wycliffe, an English theologian and reformer, presenting his translation

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Ford Madox Brown
…and neomedievalism first appears in Wyclif Reading His Translation of the Scriptures to John of Gaunt (1847). In 1848 Brown briefly accepted Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a pupil, and in 1850 Brown contributed to the Pre-Raphaelites’ magazine, Germ. Like William Holman Hunt, Brown painted in the open air to obtain…
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…and neomedievalism first appears in Wyclif Reading His Translation of the Scriptures to John of Gaunt (1847). In 1848 Brown briefly accepted Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a pupil, and in 1850 Brown contributed to the Pre-Raphaelites’ magazine, Germ. Like William Holman Hunt, Brown painted in the open air to obtain…
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