Editing Ford Madox Brown (section)

==Family==
[[File:The Bromley Family.jpg|thumbnail|left|upright|''The Bromley Family''. Brown's first wife Elizabeth, lower right, 1844]]
[[File:Grave of Elizabeth Madox Brown in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Grave of Elizabeth Madox Brown in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
Ford Madox Brown was married twice. His first wife Elizabeth Bromley was his first cousin, the daughter of his mother's sister Mary. They were married in [[Meopham]] in Kent in April 1841, shortly before his 20th birthday and less than a year after the sudden death of his sister Elizabeth. They lived in [[Montmartre]] in 1841 with Brown's invalid father who died the following summer.

Their first child died young as an infant in November 1842. Their daughter [[Lucy Madox Brown|Emma Lucy]] was born in 1843 and the family moved back to England in 1844. They travelled to Rome in 1845 to alleviate the illness of his wife, who was suffering from consumption (pulmonary [[tuberculosis]]). She died in Paris in June 1846, aged 27, on the journey back to England from Rome, and was buried on the western side of [[Highgate Cemetery]]. [[Christina Rossetti]], [[Elizabeth Siddal]] and other members of the Rossetti family were later buried alongside.

Emma Hill became a frequent model for Brown from 1848; for example, she is the wife in ''[[The Last of England (painting)|The Last of England]]''. She became his mistress, and they shared a house in London, but social convention discouraged him from marrying an illiterate daughter of a bricklayer. Their daughter [[Catherine Madox Brown|Catherine Emily]] was born in 1850, and eventually they were married at [[St Dunstan-in-the-West]] in April 1853. Ford leased a house in [[Fitzroy Square]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Fitzroy Square Pages 52-63 Survey of London: Volume 21, the Parish of St Pancras Part 3: Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1949. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/pp52-63 |publisher=British History Online |access-date=4 August 2020}}</ref>

Their son, '''Oliver Madox Brown''' (1855–1874) (known as Nolly) showed promise both as an artist and poet, but died of [[blood poisoning]] before his maturity. The death of Nolly was a crushing blow for Brown, and he kept a room for his son's belongings as a shrine. Another son Arthur was born in September 1856. Brown used Arthur as the model for the baby held by a ragged girl in the foreground of ''Work'', but he died aged only ten months old in July 1857.
[[File:Ford Madox Brown - Pretty Baa-Lambs - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''[[The Pretty Baa-Lambs]]''. Brown's mistress and later wife Emma and second daughter Cathy in 1851]]
His daughters [[Lucy Madox Brown]] and [[Catherine Madox Brown]] were also competent artists. Lucy married [[William Michael Rossetti]] in 1874. Catherine, married [[Francis Hueffer]]; through Catherine, Brown was the grandfather of novelist [[Ford Madox Ford]] and great-grandfather of [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Home Secretary]] [[Frank Soskice]].