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 William Hogarth, Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his mos ...

and Emma Hill, was an artist and model associated with the

Pre-Raphaelites The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti ...

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, Kingdom of Prussia, on 22 May 1845 to Joha ...

Early life

Born out of wedlock to

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,

Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review (1924), The Transatlant ...

(1873-1939) and

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

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

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, with whom she had three sons including

Frank Soskice Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician. Background and education Soskice was born in Geneva on 23 July 1902. His father was the exiled Jewish-Russian revolutionary ...

, 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 Pa ...

, while they modelled and worked as assistants under their father. Other female

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, ...

artists such as

Georgiana Burne-Jones Georgiana, Lady Burne-Jones (''née'' MacDonald; 21 July 1840 – 2 February 1920) was a British painter and engraver, and the second oldest of the MacDonald sisters. She was married to the Late Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, and wa ...

, the sister of

Thomas Seddon : ''For the New Zealand politician see'' Tom Seddon Thomas Seddon (28 August 1821 in London – 23 November 1856 in Cairo) was an English landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who painted colourful and highly detailed s ...

and

Marie Spartali Stillman Marie Stillman (née Spartali) (Greek: Μαρία Σπαρτάλη; 10 March 1844 – 6 March 1927) was a British painter, of Greek descent. A member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she is regarded as the greatest fe ...

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

Watts Gallery Watts Gallery – Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts. The gallery has been Grade II* listed on t ...

28 September 2021 – 20 February 2022.

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,

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File:Ford.madox.brown.cathy.m.b.1853.tate.jpg, ''Cathy Madox Brown'', pencil,

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References

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