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.
Last modified 29 June 2013