Ford Madox Brown

Standard Name: Brown, Ford Madox

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Elizabeth Siddal
ES was trained in dressmaking and later studied painting informally, in her connection with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , from such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
65, 66
She had no...
Family and Intimate relationships Ford Madox Ford
His mother, born Catherine Brown, herself a painter, was daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown , from whom FMF later took his middle name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Ford Madox Ford
Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
He had ties to writers Anne Ogle , Mary Louisa Molesworth , Ouida , and Mathilde Blind . His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle , James Anthony Froude
Friends, Associates Christina Rossetti
The next year the Rossetti household was increased by the arrival of Ford Madox Brown 's ten-year-old daughter, Lucy , who came to them to be educated by Maria. Christina's brother William, who at this...
Friends, Associates Isabella Neil Harwood
The position of her father as a journal editor put INH in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston ...
Friends, Associates Mathilde Blind
One of her travelling companions (and a close friend) was the New Woman novelist Mona Caird (famous for her declaration calling the institution of marriage a vexatious failure in the Westminster Review in 1888).
qtd. in
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
38
Instructor Dante Gabriel Rossetti
DGR attended King's College School (from 1837 to 1841), where he studied with John Sell Cotman . He led a desultory, bohemian life until in 1847, after finding the approach of the Royal Academy stultifying...
Instructor Christina Rossetti
Also about this time, she began taking art lessons in Camden Town, taught by Ford Madox Brown .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
128
Intertextuality and Influence Mathilde Blind
The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne found the new readings most precious.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press, 1959–1962, 6 vols.
2: 116
Her close friendship with Ford Madox Brown and his family grew out of the piece, and her descriptions of scenery...
Leisure and Society Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown , commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke and painted in 1874...
Leisure and Society Iza Duffus Hardy
IDH may have had an interest in Pre-Raphaelite art, since in 1872 she composed a letter in support of renowned painter Ford Madox Brown 's nomination to a professorship at Cambridge .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Material Conditions of Writing Mathilde Blind
MB worked at this book while staying with Ford Madox Brown and his second wife in Manchester.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
It appeared without prefatory matter, but included at the end some pages of Opinions of the Press...
Occupation William Morris
Founding members of the Firm included Ford Madox Brown , Edward Burne-Jones , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Philip Webb , in addition to the proprietors.
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
15
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
15
Publishing Mathilde Blind
This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown .
Brown had also produced two illustrations for MB 's fairy tale Blue Ogven.
Ford, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work. Longmans, Green, 1896.
354
MB presented a copy to William Gladstone , with whom she maintained a correspondence.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
37, 36

Timeline

7 May 1855: Painter Joanna Mary Boyce's Elgiva was hung...

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7 May 1855

Painter Joanna Mary Boyce 's Elgiva was hung at the Royal Academy exhibition; this was Boyce's first public exposure.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
49
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
3

1869: Lucy Madox Brown, daughter of Pre-Raphaelite...

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1869

Lucy Madox Brown , daughter of Pre-Raphaelite Ford Madox Brown , exhibited at the Dudley Gallery watercolour show.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
81

3 May 1869: Catherine Madox Brown made her exhibition...

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3 May 1869

Catherine Madox Brown made her exhibition debut with At the Opera at the Royal Academy .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
85
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
3

Texts

Blind, Mathilde, and Ford Madox Brown. Dramas in Miniature. Chatto and Windus, 1891.