Thomas Plint

Thomas Edward Plint (1823–1861) was a British stockbroker and important Pre-Raphaelite art collector who commissioned and owned several notable paintings.^[1] In 1839, with his friend Charles Reed, he started and edited a magazine called The Leeds Repository.

Work – commissioned by Plint

A religious evangelical, Plint served as a lay preacher at Leeds Congregational Chapel. In 1852, he commissioned Ford Madox Brown to complete Work, a celebration of the protestant work ethic.^[1] He demanded changes to the composition, notably the inclusion of a distributor of evangelical tracts, but died before its completion.^[2]

He was at one time owner of The Black Brunswicker, which he purchased from Ernest Gambart.^[3] Other paintings in his collection included Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents.^[1]