The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2023

Thinking, Portrait of Emma Madox Brown

c. 1870

Catherine Madox Brown

(British, 1850–1927)

England, 19th century

Watercolor and gouache on medium-weight wove paper

Support: Medium-weight wove paper

Sight: 52.7 x 36.5 cm (20 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.)

Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz 2013.252

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed, lower left in red gouache: artist's monogram and 70, partially covered by the attached gilded liner

Provenance
Mrs. M. A. Soskice (Juiet M. Hueffer Soskice, granddaughter of Ford Madox Brown)
J S Maas & Co Ltd, London
?-2013
Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
December 2, 2013-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. London: Virago, 1989. fig. 25, p.87
Exhibition history

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1870

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.252