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A Victorian painting of mourners attending a funeral. The mourners are dressed in black, walking through a graveyard with gravestones at either side of them. One mourner is covering her face with a cloth, appearing to cry. The colours in the painting are very dark and muted tones. Add to board
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A Village Funeral Painting

‘A Village Funeral’, painted in 1872 by Frank Holl. Many new funerary practices emerged in Britain during the Victorian period, partly in response to Queen Victoria’s mourning over her husband who died in 1861.

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