Catherine Madox Brown

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| name = Catherine Madox Brown Hueffer

| image = File:Catherine Madox Brown2.jpg

| caption = Catherine Madox Brown (unfinished)

| birth_name = Catherine Madox Brown

| birth_date = {{birth date|1850|11|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = 1927

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| training = Queen's College, Harley Street

| movement = {{ubl | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | Aesthetic Movement | Arts and Crafts Movement }}

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| father = Ford Madox Brown

| spouse = {{marriage|Francis Hueffer|3 September 1872|19 January 1889|end=his death}}

| children = 3, including Ford Madox Ford, Oliver Madox Hueffer and Juliet Soskice

| relatives = Lucy Madox Brown (half-sister)

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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.Thirlwell, Angela, Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010), p. 46-47. Emma and Catherine posed as the mother and child in Pretty Baa-Lambs.[http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1956P9 Pretty Baa-Lambs], Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 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 (1873-1939) and Oliver Madox Hueffer (1877-1931), both writers. Their daughter, Juliet Catherine Emma, married Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice, with whom she had three sons including Frank Soskice, future Home Secretary.

Francis Hueffer died in January 1889.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 Emma left Catherine all of her property after her death in September 1890.Thirlwell, Angela, Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010), p. 235

Artistic career

She began painting along with her half-sister Lucy Madox Brown, while they modelled and worked as assistants 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.[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personExtended/mp00591/ford-madox-brown?tab=iconography] Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), Painter and designer

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.{{Cite web|title='Uncommon Power': Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown|url=https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/whats-on/uncommon-power-lucy-and-catherine-madox-brown/|access-date=2021-11-02|website=www.wattsgallery.org.uk}}

File:A Deep Problem 9 and 6 make - by Catherine Madox Brown, 1875.jpg

Work and portraits

File:Catherine Madox Brown.jpg| 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

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