The Pretty Baa-Lambs

The Pretty Baa-Lambs is an oil on panel work executed in 1851 by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown and part of the collection of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. Painted 'en plein air' in bright sunshine, the work depicts the artist's model and mistress Emma Hill and their infant daughter Catherine Madox Brown, dressed in 18th century clothes, feeding grass to a group of lambs. In the rear the family nursemaid is on her knees pulling more grass. A smaller replica of the work is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

The Pretty Baa-Lambs

The Pretty Baa-Lambs is an oil on panel work executed in 1851 by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown and part of the collection of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. Painted 'en plein air' in bright sunshine, the work depicts the artist's model and mistress Emma Hill and their infant daughter Catherine Madox Brown, dressed in 18th century clothes, feeding grass to a group of lambs. In the rear the family nursemaid is on her knees pulling more grass. A smaller replica of the work is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.