Ford Madox Red (April 16, 1821 – October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral & historical cases, notable for his distinctively graphic & typically Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. When he was closely associated by owning the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was never actually a member. All the same, he remained more or less Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom he too joined William Morris's design company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., in 1861.

One of his best known images is "The Last of England", the portrait of the pair of stricken immigrants when it sail away on the ship that may require the children from either England forever. It was inspired per departure of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner, who experienced left for Australia. A painting is structured sustaining Red's characteristic linear energy, & emphasis in apparently grotesque & tired details, like a cabbages hanging from either a ship's side.

'last's first painting was Operate (1852–1865), which he showed at the favorite exhibition. It attempted to depict a totality of the mid-Victorian social experience around one image, depicting 'peon' excavate a road, & disrupting the old social hierarchies when it did sol. the image erupts into proliferating details from either a moral force centre of a action, when the workers tear a hole in the road – &, symbolically, in the social fabric. Apiece character is the particular social class & role in the modern urban environment. Light brown wrote a catalogue to accompany the favorite exhibition of Function. This publication involved an extensive explanation of Act that nonetheless leaves numerous questions unreciprocated.

Dark brown's major accomplishment when Operate was a period of xii paintings depicting a history of Manchester, England within Manchester Town Hall. These present the partially ironic & satiric review of Mancunian history.

His boy '''Oliver Madox 'last''' (1855–1874) showed promise both as an artist and poet, but died of blood-poisioning.

He was a granddad of novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice.