The twelve forgotten masterpieces in Manchester town hall that have a message for our times
Hidden behind screens in the Great Hall of Manchester town hall - while £325m refurbishment work continues - are a dozen Victorian masterpieces, which for a hundred or more years have been largely forgotten by the art establishment.
Perhaps the most prescient of Brown's Manchester works is Chetham's Life Dream, named after Crumpsall-born textile merchant Humphrey Chetham whose ambition - which he realised - was to form a school to educate the poor boys of the the city. It's now Chetham's School of Music. The mural shows him imagining his own garden filled with '40 healthy boys, of poor but hardworking parents'. Notably, there is no word for the poor girls of the city.
Brown's 'Opening Of The Bridgewater Canal' shows one of the most important moments in the growth of our city. The Duke of Bridgewater owned coal mines in Swinton and with his friend, engineer James Brindley, he built a canal that could take barges into the heart of the city, including an aqueduct over the River Irwell.Now his works, and place in the art firmament, have been re-evaluated by University of Manchester art history expert Dr Colin Trodd.
Senior Art History Lecturer Dr Trodd believes that was an injustice, insisting that 'without doubt' Brown's masterpieces were the most important public art works of their day. During his research, Dr Trodd discovered that Brown was an outspoken critic of industrialists, factory owners, and most local politicians and civil servants, and that he provided financial support for impoverished artists and unemployed workers despite not being wealthy himself.
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