Catherine Madox Brown

Catherine Madox Brown Hueffer
Catherine Madox Brown (unfinished)
Born	Catherine Madox Brown (1850-11-11)11 November 1850 London, England
Died	3 June 1927(1927-06-03) (aged 76)
Education	Queen's College, Harley Street
Movement	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Aesthetic Movement Arts and Crafts Movement
Spouse(s)	Francis Hueffer ​ ​ (m. 1850; died 1899)​
Children	3, including Ford Madox Ford and Oliver Madox Hueffer
Parent(s)	Ford Madox Brown (father)
Relatives	Lucy Madox Brown (half-sister)

Catherine Madox Brown Hueffer (11 November 1850 – 3 June 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 to Ford Madox Brown and Emma Matilda Hill on 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] Catherine's parents married in 1853.

Marriage and family[]

She married Francis Hueffer on 3 September 1872. They had two surviving sons, Ford Madox Ford born 1873 and Oliver Madox Hueffer, both writers. Their daughter, Juliet Catherine Emma, married Russian revolutionary journalist  [ru], whose 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).

"A Deep Problem 9 and 6 make - " by Catherine Madox Brown. 1875. Watercolour. Birmingham Museums Trust.

Work and portraits[]

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  Catherine Madox Brown, Portrait of the artist's second daughter by Ford Madox Brown, 1852, Walker Art Gallery, 19 cm x 16.5 cm, Accession Number WAG10507

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  Waiting: an English fireside of 1854-55 by Ford Madox Brown

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  Pretty Baa-Lambs by Ford Madox Brown, oil on panel, 1851/1859, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

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  Stages of Cruelty (Catherine Madox Brown is the child), 1857, Manchester Art Gallery

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  Cathy Madox Brown, pencil, Tate Gallery

Further reading[]

• [2] 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)
• [3] 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[]

• Catherine Madox Brown at Find a Grave