Thomas Hovenden, 1882 - The Last Moments of John Brown - fine art print

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In 1859 John Brown, the controversial abolitionist, led a raid on a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), intending to arm enslaved African Americans. Brown had come to believe that the only way to end slavery in America was through bloodshed. Captured and convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, Brown was sentenced to die by hanging. His hasty trial electrified the nation, and a sensational newspaper account reported how he paused on his way to the scaffold to kiss a baby. At the request of a patron two decades later, Hovenden, also an abolitionist, made it the subject of this sympathetic work.

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The modern art artpiece was created by the male artist Thomas Hovenden. The 130 year old piece of art was painted with the absolute size 77 3/8 x 66 1/4 in (196,5 x 168,3 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the American painter as the medium of the piece of art. This work of art is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel, 1897 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel, 1897. What is more, the alignment is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Thomas Hovenden was a North American artist, whose art style can be attributed mainly to Post-Impressionism. The North American artist was born in the year 1840 in Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland and passed away at the age of 55 in 1895 in New Jersey, United States.

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