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| Keywords: people 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. 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. Thomas Hovenden - The Last Moments of John Brown - Google Art Project.jpg Google Art Project Q20198163 Creator Thomas Hovenden ~ 1884 Oil on canvas cm 117 2 96 8 Gallery 23 de Young http //art famsf org/thomas-hovenden/last-moments-john-brown-1979760 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Gift of Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd 1840 Dunmanway County Cork Ireland 1840 1895 Norristown PA 1895 Thomas male 721257 Hovenden American 1840 - 1895 /collection/de-young-museum/artwork/the-last-moments-of-john-brown-thomas-hovenden/727030/ Thomas Hovenden Painter /artist/thomas-hovenden/4132579/ 4132579 /collection/de-young-museum/ de Young Museum 677086 http //www deyoungmuseum org/ 1/28/2012 1 14 07 AM /collection/de-young-museum/artwork/the-last-moments-of-john-brown-thomas-hovenden/727030/ 1884 1171 7 727030 False 1884 ca 1884 /collection/de-young-museum/level/second-floor/725073/ Second Floor 3/24/2012 10 10 14 AM 1979 7 60 Painting 1880 1890 United States w968 x h1171 in ca 1884 False 0 826171875 Object /collection/de-young-museum/level/second-floor/725073/gallery-23/721251/ Gallery 23 the-last-moments-of-john-brown-thomas-hovenden The Last Moments of John Brown l 968 5 Gift of Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd special url_id RQE6Ugnh6hbNOA PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Hovenden Thomas; Last Moments of John Brown; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Thomas Hovenden American paintings in the De Young Museum Paintings of John Brown abolitionist Google Art Project works by Thomas Hovenden African Americans in 19th-century art Paintings of the American Civil War 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. | ||||
