Catherine Madox Brown Hueffer (11 November 1850 – 1927), also known as Cathy, the first child of

Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painti ...

and Emma Hill, was an artist and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and married to the writer

Francis Hueffer Francis Hueffer (born Franz Carl Christoph Johann Hüffer; 22 May 1845 – 19 January 1889) was a German-English writer on music, music critic, and librettist. Biography Hueffer was born in Münster, Germany, on 22 May 1845 to Johann Hermann Hü ...

Early life

Born out of wedlock to Ford Madox Brown and Emma Matilda Hill on 11 November 1850 in

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, Catherine was named after Emma's mother. Emma and Catherine posed as the mother and child in ''Pretty Baa-Lambs''. Catherine's parents married in 1853.

Marriage and family

She married

on 3 September 1872. They had two surviving sons,

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(1873-1939) and

Oliver Madox Hueffer Oliver Madox Hueffer (born Oliver Franz Hueffer; 1877 – 22 June 1931), was an author, playwright, and war correspondent. Biography Heuffer was born in 1877 in Surrey to Catherine Madox Brown, an artist, and Francis Hueffer, a German-Englis ...

(1877-1931), both writers. Their daughter, Juliet Catherine Emma, married Russian revolutionary journalist

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, with whom she had three sons including

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, future

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died in January 1889. Emma left Catherine all of her property after her death in September 1890.

Artistic career

She began painting along with her half-sister

Lucy Madox Brown Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (19 July 1843 – 12 April 1894) was a British artist, author, and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. She was married to the writer and art critic William Michael Rossetti. Early life Madox Brown was born in P ...

, modelled and worked as an assistant under their father. Other female

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artists such as

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, the sister of Thomas Seddon and

Marie Spartali Stillman Marie Stillman (née Spartali) (Greek: Μαρία Σπαρτάλη; 10 March 1844 – 6 March 1927) was a British member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Of the Pre-Raphaelites, she had one of the longest-running caree ...

also took lessons in the same studio.

List of works

Portrait of her father

at the Easel, watercolour, 1870.
''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).

Exhibitions

'Uncommon Power': Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown at the

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28 September 2021 – 20 February 2022. A Deep Problem 9 and 6 make - by Catherine Madox Brown, 1875

Work and portraits

File:Catherine Madox Brown.jpg, Catherine Madox Brown, ''Portrait of the artist's second daughter'' by Ford Madox Brown, 1852,

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, 19 cm x 16.5 cm, Accession Number WAG10507 File:Ford Madox Brown - Waiting- an English fireside of 1854-55 - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Waiting: an English fireside of 1854-55'' by Ford Madox Brown File:Ford Madox Brown - Pretty Baa-Lambs - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Pretty Baa-Lambs'' by Ford Madox Brown, oil on panel, 1851/1859, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery File:Stages of Cruelty by Ford Madox Brown.jpg, '' Stages of Cruelty'' (Catherine Madox Brown is the child), 1857, Manchester Art Gallery File:Ford.madox.brown.cathy.m.b.1853.tate.jpg, ''Cathy Madox Brown'', pencil, Tate Gallery

References

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