Artist. Born out of wedlock to painter Ford Madox Brown with his then mistress, and later second wife, Emma Matilda Hill, she was named after her maternal grandmother, Emma's mother. Her parents eventually married in April 1853 at The Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West on Fleet Street in London. Associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Catherine began painting along with her half-sister Lucy Madox Brown, modelled and worked as an assistant under their father Ford Madox Brown in his studio. Also taking lessons in the same studio were other female Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Marie Spartali Stillman and Georgiana Burne-Jones, aunt of Rudyard Kipling, wife of artist Edward Burne-Jones and sister of English landscape painter Thomas Seddon. She was the widow of Francis Hueffer, German-born music critic of The Times and translator of the correspondence between Liszt and Wagner, and mother of two surviving sons, novelist Ford Madox Ford (né Hueffer) and author, playwright, and war correspondent. Their daughter, English translator and writer Juliet Catherine Emma Soskice (née Hueffer), married Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice as his second wife and with whom she had a son, British Lawyer, politician and future UK Home Secretary Frank Soskice.
Artist. Born out of wedlock to painter Ford Madox Brown with his then mistress, and later second wife, Emma Matilda Hill, she was named after her maternal grandmother, Emma's mother. Her parents eventually married in April 1853 at The Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West on Fleet Street in London. Associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Catherine began painting along with her half-sister Lucy Madox Brown, modelled and worked as an assistant under their father Ford Madox Brown in his studio. Also taking lessons in the same studio were other female Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Marie Spartali Stillman and Georgiana Burne-Jones, aunt of Rudyard Kipling, wife of artist Edward Burne-Jones and sister of English landscape painter Thomas Seddon. She was the widow of Francis Hueffer, German-born music critic of The Times and translator of the correspondence between Liszt and Wagner, and mother of two surviving sons, novelist Ford Madox Ford (né Hueffer) and author, playwright, and war correspondent. Their daughter, English translator and writer Juliet Catherine Emma Soskice (née Hueffer), married Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice as his second wife and with whom she had a son, British Lawyer, politician and future UK Home Secretary Frank Soskice.
Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine
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