“Christ Washing Peter's Feet” (1852) by Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893).

One of his most important works—certainly his most important religious picture—was begun late in 1851 and occupied a good part of the following year. It is his "Christ Washing Peter's Feet." Frederick Shields tells of attending an exhibition of paintings, including many works of the Pre-Raphaelites at Manchester, England, in 1857, when "hung at the very roof was a picture of such power that, slighted as it had been by the judges and unobserved by the general public, it held me riveted - large and simple in the composition of its masses as Giotto—brilliant and forcible, yet true and refined in its colour and lighting, and wonderful in its grasp of human character and passion. . . . Permanently confirmed was my first impression that, among all the English pictures of sacred subjects there, it alone was worthy to rank with the great Italians."