Ford Madox Brown

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

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.

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 . She had no...