Disappointed Love

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V&A South Kensington
Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries

Artist/Maker	Danby, Francis (ARA) (artist)
Place of origin	England (painted)

This was the first painting Danby exhibited and it became one of his best known works. It depicts a heartbroken young woman in the pose traditionally associated with the state of melancholy. A bonnet, shawl and miniature portrait of her lover lie beside her, while a torn-up letter floats away on the pond.

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Oil painting
Title	Disappointed Love (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	oil on panel Oil Paint Panel Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting entitled 'Disappointed Love' by Francis Danby. Great Britain, 1821.
Physical description	A young woman in white is set against a dark background, distraught and weeping into her lap on a secluded river bank. The clues to her 'disappointed love' lie strewn about her: her bonnet and shawl, a miniature of a young man, an open wallet with a letter and torn scraps of paper.
Dimensions	Estimate height: 62.8cm Estimate width: 81.2cm Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style	British School
Marks and inscriptions	'F Danby' (Signed by the artist)
Credit line	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted	Love Landscape Figures Girls
Summary	This was the first painting Danby exhibited and it became one of his best known works. It depicts a heartbroken young woman in the pose traditionally associated with the state of melancholy. A bonnet, shawl and miniature portrait of her lover lie beside her, while a torn-up letter floats away on the pond.
Bibliographic references	Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 58-59 100 Great Paintings in The Victoria & Albert Museum.London: V&A, 1985, p.114 Evans, Mark et al. Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Japan : Brain Trust, 2002
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	FA.65[O]

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Record created	December 15, 1999
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17342/disappointed-love-oil-painting-danby-francis-ara/

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