Hogarth chosen to Illuminate Brueghel

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The Procession to Calvary' by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Completed in 1602, it is regarded as one of Pieter Brueghel the Younger's finest work

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The painitng is on view at the National Trust, Nostell Priory

The National Trust and the Art Fund launched a £2.7m appeal to save this painting for the nation. Its permanent home is in Nostell Priory, in Wakefield, and the campaign by the National Trust and Art Fundmeans it can now be kept on public display at the National Trust property, where
it has hung for more than 200 years.

The National Heritage Memorial Fund completed its campaign on Thursday 6th January when it announced it would add a £1 million grant to the £500,000 grant from Art Fund, more than £680,000 raised by the public and nearly £510,000 from trusts and foundations

The painting depicts Christ, carrying his Cross, on the way to his Crucifixion at the top right of the painting. The biblical narrative is set in a contemporary Flemish town and landscape but with the inclusion of a fanciful depiction of the Temple of Jerusalem. In the right foreground
are the women who followed Christ, weeping as he goes to his death. Ahead of Christ, in a cart, are the Good Thief and the Bad Thief, who were crucified either side of him. The dark sky above Calvary at the top right is symbolic of the fate which awaits Christ and a foretaste of the
“darkness over the land, from the Sixth hour unto the ninth hour”, after Christ was hoisted on the Cross

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564/65-1637/38) was the eldest son of the Brussels-based artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569). After the death of his parents he and his brother, later known as Jan 'Velvet' Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), were raised by their grandmother Mayken Verhulst (c. 1520-1600), an artist herself and possibly their first teacher. Pieter the Younger may also have studied
withthe landscape painter Gillis III van Coninxloo (1544-1607) before setting up as an independent master in Antwerp, in modern-day Belgium