CONVENT THOUGHTS

'''Convent Thoughts''' is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Charles Allston Collins which was created between 1850 and 1851. Collins set it to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1851 where it was exhibited.
The painting shows a nun contemplating a passion flower symbolising the the crucifixion of Christ. In her left hand she holds an illuminated missal.^[1]
The flowers were painted in the Oxford garden of Thomas Combe, an early collector of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Combe bequeathed his art collection to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 1894 and ''Convent Thoughts'' remains in the Museum's collection to the present day.

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1. Collins, Charles Alston (1828 - 1873): Convent Thoughts at Ashmolean.org.