Catherine Madox Brown

Catherine Madox Brown Hueffer
Catherine Madox Brown (unfinished)
Born	Catherine Madox Brown 11 November 1850 London, England
Died	1927
Nationality	British
Education	Queen's College, Harley Street
Movement	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Aesthetic Movement, Arts and Crafts Movement

Catherine Madox Brown Hueffer (11 November 1850 – 1927), also known as Cathy, the first child of Ford Madox Brown and Emma Hill, was an artist and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and married to the writer Francis Hueffer.

Early life

Born out of wedlock 11 November 1850 in London, Catherine was named after Emma's mother.^[1] Emma and Catherine posed as the mother and child in Pretty Baa-Lambs.^[2]

Marriage and family

She married Francis Hueffer on the 3 September 1872. They had two surviving sons, Ford Madox Ford born 1873 and Oliver Madox Hueffer, both writers. Their daughter, Juliet, married Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice; their son Frank Soskice became Home Secretary. Emma left Catherine all of her property after her death in September 1890.^[3] Francis Hueffer died in January 1899.^[4]

Artistic career

She began painting along with her half sister Lucy Madox Brown, modelled and worked as an assistant under their father. Other female Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Georgiana Burne-Jones, the sister of Thomas Seddon and Marie Spartali Stillman also took lessons in the same studio.

List of works

Portrait of her father Ford Madox Brown at the Easel, watercolour, 1870.^[5]
At the Opera, watercolour and pencil, 1869.
Wandering Thoughts, watercolour heightened with bodycolour, 1875.
Portrait of Laura, wife of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, watercolour, 1872, 50.8 x 33 cm, Exh. The Fine Art and Antiques fair Olympia, London, 2000 by Campbell Wilson (London).

Work and portraits

Further reading

• Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Catherine Madox Brown
• Thirlwell, Angela, Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010)
• ---., William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis. (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2003), ISBN 0-300-10200-3
• Marsh, Jan and Nunn, Pamela Gerrish, Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement (London: Virago, 1989)
• Marsh, Jan, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, (London: Quartet, 1985)
• Roe, Dinah The Rossettis in Wonderland. A Victorian Family History(London: Haus Publishing, 2011), ISBN 978-1-907822-01-8
• Gaze, Delia, Dictionary of Women Artists, Volume 1 (London: Routledge, 1997)
• Peattie, Roger W., Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990)
• Treuherz, Julian, Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2011) ISBN 978-0-85667-700-7

References

External links

• Find a Grave