Ford Madox Brown

The most famous element of this legend involves the disinterment of her corpse in the service of her husband's art. Rossetti had buried the manuscript of his poems with her, telling Ford Madox BrownI...

FMF first published under the name Ford H. Madox Hueffer , a name combining his birthname (Ford Hermann Hueffer ) with the name of his maternal grandfather (Ford Madox Brown ). After the...

MB regularly spent a portion of each year with the painter Ford Madox Brown and his second wife, Emma , in Manchester.

This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown .MB presented a copy to William Gladstone , with whom she maintained a correspondence.

Founding members of the Firm included Ford Madox Brown , Edward Burne-Jones , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Philip Webb , in addition to the proprietors.

MB worked at this book while staying with Ford Madox Brown and his second wife in Manchester. It appeared without prefatory matter, but included at the end some pages of Opinions of the Press...

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...

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 .

The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne found the new readings most precious.Her close friendship with Ford Madox Brown and his family grew out of the piece, and her descriptions of scenery...

Also about this time, she began taking art lessons in Camden Town, taught by Ford Madox Brown .

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...

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...

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).

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

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