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 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.
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).
Exhibitions
'Uncommon Power': Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown at the Watts Gallery 28 September 2021 – 20 February 2022.[6]
"A Deep Problem 9 and 6 make - " by Catherine Madox Brown. 1875. Watercolour. Birmingham Museums Trust.
Work and portraits
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
Waiting: an English fireside of 1854-55 by Ford Madox Brown
[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
^Thirlwell, Angela, Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010), p. 46-47.
^Pretty Baa-Lambs, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
^Moser, From Olive Garnett's Diary: Impressions of Ford Madox Ford and His Friends, 1890-1906 in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Fall 1974), pp. 511-533
^Thirlwell, Angela, Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010), p. 235
^[1] Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), Painter and designer
^"'Uncommon Power': Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown". www.wattsgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2021.