Augustus Leopold Egg

1816–1863

*Past and Present, No. 3* 1858
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Historic and Modern British Art: Art for the Crowd: 1815–1905

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Augustus Leopold Egg RA (2 May 1816, in London – 26 March 1863, in Algiers) was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.

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