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Contemporary audiences such as me would react to this painting with a  sense of confusion since this piece is resembling another old master piece and if we see paintings now in our society the picture is more clear, with a lot more details. Some would describe our society’s paintings as more expressive and less formal than the old sense of art. This happens because people aren’t used to seeing paintings where we’d have to think about the expression being made in the painting and what the artist was even thinking.

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Some social issues that this painting may address could be women’s roles due to the woman/ wife being presented holding the baby in a sense of motherhood. In this painting the mother looks identical in a way that she’s placed like Virgin Mary. If you look at any paintings of her, she’s holding this upright position as she holds a baby and has a halo looking figure in the background. In Madox Ford’s painting the mirror in the back represents the halo, this goes back to social issues because it shows that women were looked upon as a goddess that has the ability to create continued generations, but mistreated in a sense of inequality.

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Although this piece is yet to be finished and never will be, some may say it's reminiscent of the piece called Madonna and Child. Although the piece itself tells a story and has a meaning, in the sense of references it would have to be indirect due to the fact that it resembles Madonna and Child in a way that they are painted in the same sense, but overall are different in meanings. In Jan Van Eyck’s painting called Arnolfini Marriage there is a round mirror that Madox Brown also used in his painting as a reference, but instead used it as a way of showing the painter itself and give meaning inside the painting.

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Although the painting is unfinished, Madox Brown did work on this piece for a certain amount of years starting in 1851, but soon couldn’t finish it with the death of his son, Arthur in 1857. In the painting we have his Wife, Emma hill as she’s holding their newborn son, Arthur. This piece is placed at the Tate Gallery in London where you can view it up close.

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The artist who painted the piece, “Take your son, sir!” was Ford Madox Brown. He was born in Calais, France in 1821, where his mother Caroline Brown and his Father Ford Brown lived. Although Madox Brown’s father sought a naval career so he could take the same footsteps as him he took an interest in painting. The artist started very young with his art career by copying old master pieces and slowly building his way up by attending academies to improve his work. His first pieces of work would have to be a portrait of his father, Ford Brown.