The Lord Gave and the Lord Hath Taketh Away, Blessed Be the Name of the Lord. Frank Holl. 1868. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the City of London Corporation. Catalogue no. 5 in the 2013 Watts Gallery exhibition, Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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Holl's other representations of death and mourning
- Holl's Her Firstborn, Horsham Churchyard, 1876
- 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)
- Harry Furniss's Death of Major Taunton (1910)
References
Bills, Mark. Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013.
Last modified 29 June 2013