(1851–1856) is an unfinished painting by the British artist Ford Madox Brown that depicts a woman showing her newborn son to its father.

Brown's principal influence was Jan van Eyck's painting the Arnolfini Marriage Portrait, which had recently been acquired by the National Gallery.

Brown's own wife was pregnant whilst he was painting this picture and she gave birth to a son which they named Arthur.

Arthur then died at just ten months old and it is considered Brown was unable to complete the painting through grief for his son, so he abandoned it.

[1] The art historian Marcia Pointon has argued that the painting is deliberately paradoxical, playing on the conflict between new life and death.