- Artist
- William Lindsay Windus 1822–1907
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 149 × 159 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by P.L. Teed 1937
- Reference
- N04885
Display caption
William Windus’s first child died in 1860, aged seven months. He’s shown here wrapped in a man’s shirt, jacket and fur coat. The artist’s wife, Mary Tongue, also died prematurely, from cancer, in 1862.Windus was a Liverpool artist who discovered Pre-Raphaelitism in 1850 when he saw Millais’s Christ in the House of his Parents – also on display in this room. The artists associated with the movement were known for their intimate depictions of babies and children and death-portraits often served as private mementos.
Gallery label, July 2007
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