Disappointed Love

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Disappointed Love
Francis Danby (1793-1861) - Disappointed Love - FA.65(O) - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg
Artist Francis Danby
Year1821
Type Oil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions62.8 cm× 81.2 cm(24.7 in× 32.0 in)
Location Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Disappointed Love is an 1821 oil painting by the Irish artist Francis Danby. [1] It features a heartbroken young woman in a state of melancholy, due to a faithless lover. Next to her is a miniature painting of her lover, while the torn-up fragments of a love letter float across the water. [2]

Danby was part of the Bristol School of artists known for their landscapes and genre scenes during the Regency era. [3] The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1821 at Somerset House in London, the first time he had submitted works to the Royal Academy and became one of his best-known works. [4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been given by the art collector John Sheepshanks in 1857. [5]

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